From the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood develop an approach they call 'regulative epistemology', exploring the connection between knowledge and intellectual virtue. In the course of their argument they analyse particular virtues of intellectual life - such as courage, generosity, and humility - in detail.

Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology

Politics & Social Sciences

Roberts, Robert C.

Wood, W.Jay

Philosophy

Clarendon Press

Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call "regulative epistemology" This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between epistemology and ethics, and partly an approach that has never been tried before. Standing on the shoulders of recent epistemologists-including William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, and Linda Zagzebski-Roberts and Wood pursue epistemological questions by looking closely and deeply at particular traits of intellectual character such as love of knowledge, intellectual autonomy, intellectual generosity, and intellectual humility. Central to their vision is an account of intellectual goods that includes not just knowledge as properly grounded belief, but understanding and personal acquaintance, acquired and shared through the many social practices of actual intellectual life. This approach to intellectual virtue infuses the discipline of epistemology with new life, and makes it interesting to people outside the circle of professional epistemologists. It is epistemology for the whole intellectual community, as Roberts and Wood carefully sketch the ways in which virtues that would have been categorized earlier as moral make for agents who can better acquire, refine, and communicate important kinds of knowledge.

Oxford University Press

Life is a sequence of emotional states. But what are emotions and why are they so important to us? In one of the most extensive investigations of the emotions ever published, Robert Roberts develops a novel conception of what emotions are and then applies it to a large range of types of emotion and related phenomena. Aimed principally at philosophers and psychologists, this book will certainly be accessible to readers in other disciplines such as religion and anthropology.

Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

Stresses the importance of spirituality, self-control, patience, and perseverance in leading a fulfilling Christian life

The Strengths of a Christian (Spirituality and the Christian Life)

Christian Books & Bibles

Westminster John Knox Pr

A proposal for a Christian psychology that draws on a Biblical critique of several popular psychologies. Psychology has invaded the Christian Church. While the imprint of modern psychology on Christians is not all bad, it can sometimes contradict and even displace true Christianity. Roberts offers a critical examination of several influential psychologies and compares their virtues with Christian virtues.

Taking the Word to Heart: Self and Others in an Age of Therapies

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

Spirituality and Human Emotion

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

An expert in moral and philosophical psychology, Robert C. Roberts here develops an original, up-to-date understanding of human emotions in relation to spirituality and as a basic part of Christian moral character. With an eye on pertinent Biblical texts, Roberts explores emotions as nonsensory perceptions that arise from personal caring and concern. His study culminates with an in-depth examination of six "fruit of the Holy Spirit" emotion-virtues: contrition, joy, gratitude, hope, peace, and compassion. Though Spiritual Emotions is rigorous in its focus on the inner structure of Christian character, it is nonetheless readable and is laced with many narrative examples. The book will be immensely useful for Christian ethicists, psychologists, pastors, and counselors.

Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Discipleship guidance from the writings of Kierkegaard&nbsp; Genuine Christian character often runs counter to prevailing notions of Christianity--as much in today's era of nationalistic religiosity as in the staid Christendom of&nbsp;Søren Kierkegaard's time. Kierkegaard responded to the hypocrisy around him by becoming a missionary of sorts in the Western world. Through his writing he exposed the illusions of conventional wisdom while advancing a compelling vision of the true Christian life that would give rise to essential virtues like faith, hope, love, patience, gratitude, and humility. What might Kierkegaard say to us today about recovering a genuine Christian character amid manifold corruptions of the gospel?&nbsp; Robert C. Roberts guides the reader through Kierkegaard's thought about character--clarifying while never unduly simplifying--to show how Kierkegaard's prescient psychological insights can be applied in the lives of twenty-first-century Christians interested in personal formation. Taking on a Kierkegaardian voice of his own, Roberts powerfully illustrates how virtue arises not from the mastery of individual ethical principles but from the continuity of one's soul with the heart of God.

Recovering Christian Character: The Psychological Wisdom of Søren Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker (KCTS))

Eerdmans

Faith, Reason, and History: Rethinking Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments

Mercer Univ Pr

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