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Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy, edited by Michel Croce and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (2018)

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Names: Croce, Michel, 1988- editor. | Vaccarezza, Maria Silvia, editor.
Title: Connecting virtues : advances in ethics, epistemology, and political philosophy / edited by
Michel Croce and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018. | Series: Metaphilosophy series in philosophy |
First published as Metaphilosophy volume 49, no. 3 (April 2018). | Includes bibliographical
references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018028786 (print) | LCCN 2018035284 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119525745 (Adobe PDF) |
ISBN 9781119525691 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119525738 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Virtues. | Knowledge, Theory of. | Political sciencePhilosophy.
Classification: LCC BJ1521 (ebook) | LCC BJ1521 .C67 2018 (print) | DDC 179/.9dc23
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J. Adam Carter is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He works mainly in epistemology, and his publications have appeared in such journals as Nos, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Analysis. His book Metaepistemology and Relativism was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.

Sophie Grace Chappell is a professor of philosophy at the Open University. She was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, ancient philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Her main current research is about epiphanies, immediate and revelatory encounters with value. She lives with her family in the northeast of Scotland.

Michel Croce is Early Stage Marie Curie Researcher at the University of Edinburgh and a junior researcher at the Aretai Center on Virtues, Genoa. His research interests lie at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of education. He has published several articles in these fields. He also coauthored Etica delle virt: Unintroduzione, the first critical introduction to virtue ethics published in Italian (2017, Carocci).

Phillip Deen is a senior lecturer in philosophy and humanities at the University of New Hampshire and the editor of John Deweys Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy. His work on the history of American philosophy, the climate debate, civic education, and aesthetics has appeared in History of Political Thought, Public Affairs Quarterly, and the Journal of Value Inquiry, among other venues. He is currently writing a book on the ethics of stand-up comedy.

Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. Recent popular writings have appeared in the