The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	References
Part 1 Theories of humility
	Chapter 1 Theories of humility: An overview
		1.1 A brief nod to Western history
		1.2 Contemporary accounts of humility: an overview and discussion
		1.3 Modesty: a selective glimpse
		1.4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2 “I am so humble!”: On the paradoxes of humility
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Paradoxes
		2.3 Two theories of humility
			2.3.1 First theory: low self-assessment
			2.3.2 Second theory: inattentive
		2.4 Resolving the paradoxes
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3 Humility is not a virtue
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Why humility is not a virtue
		3.3 Humility as a corrective
		3.4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part 2 The ethics of humility
	Chapter 4 Humility and human flourishing
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Narcissism in the DSM-5
		4.3 The ravages of narcissism
		4.4 The well-being that unhumility compromises
		4.5 Final thoughts about humility and human flourishing
		Notes
	Chapter 5 Humility and Self-respect: Kantian and feminist perspectives
		5.1 Traditional and contemporary accounts of humility
		5.2 Kant on the vices of humility
		5.3 Kant on true humility
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6 The puzzle of humility and disparity
		6.1 First lesson: the importance of humility is limited
		6.2 Second lesson: humility is important, even for those in the right in contexts of disparity
			6.2.1 Ambition
			6.2.2 Belief
			6.2.3 Emotion
			6.2.4 Seeking and accepting assistance
			6.2.5 Engaging the Other
		6.3 Answering some worries
		6.4 Future work
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7 Humility and truth in Nietzsche: The humblebrag of the lambs
		7.1 Humility as falsehood
		7.2 The smallness in humility
		7.3 Humility as mass domestication
		7.4 The moral rhetoric of the lambs
		7.5 The metaphor and the riddle
		Notes
	Chapter 8 The comparative concern in humility and romantic love
		8.1 Humility
		8.2 Romantic love
		8.3 The comparative concern
		8.4 The suitability and nonrelational scales
		8.5 Concluding remarks
		References
	Chapter 9 Pride and humility
		9.1 Preliminaries
		9.2 Similarities between pride and humility
		9.3 Modesty as hedonic indifference, kindness, and inattention
		9.4 Pride as demanding, humility as permissive
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10 Ashamed of our selves: Disabling shame and humility
		10.1 Hume on humility and disablement
		10.2 Humility, disablement, and the effects of testimonial injustice
		References
Part 3 The politics of humility
	Chapter 11 A humble form of government: Democracy as the politics of collective experience
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Distinctions
		11.3 Competitive-elitist democracy
		11.4 Liberal democracy
		11.5 Deliberative democracy
		11.6 Sophyrosyne and deliberative democracy
		11.7 Humility and political efficacy
		11.8 Humility and delegative democracy
		11.9 Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 12 Conviction and humility
		12.1 The problem
		12.2 Conviction
		12.3 Intellectual humility
		12.4 Convictions with humility
		12.5 The limits of intellectual humility
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13 Humility and the toleration of diverse ideas
		13.1 Humility
		13.2 Intellectual Humility and Empathy
		13.3 Intellectual humility and curiosity
		13.4 Empathy, curiosity, and diverse ideas
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14 Humility, forgiveness, and restorative justice: From the personal to the political
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 Defining the contours and pathways of humility
		14.3 The forgiveness factor
		14.4 Defining restorative justice
		14.5 Restorative Justice: social service, paradigm shift, or social justice movement?
		14.6 Humility and oppressive structural power – a critique
		14.7 Recommendations for future research
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 15 Can humility be a liberatory virtue?
		15.1 Liberatory virtue: a sketch
			15.1.1 What is liberatory about liberatory virtue?
			15.1.2 What is virtuous about liberatory virtue?
			15.1.3 Whose virtues are the liberatory virtues?
			15.1.4 Can liberatory virtues be traits that also count among the traditional virtues?
		15.2 Traditional humility and liberatory humility
			15.2.1 Traditional humility
			15.2.2 Liberatory humility
		15.3 Oppressed persons and the virtue of liberatory humility
			15.3.1 Dalmiya on liberatory humility
			15.3.2 Dillon on arrogance
		Notes
		References
Part 4 Humility in religious thought
	Chapter 16 Humility among the ancient Greeks
		16.1
		16.2
		16.3
		16.4
		16.5
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 17 Aquinas on humility and relational greatness
		17.1 The orphaned virtue of humility
		17.2 Humility and pride
		17.3 Second-person consequences of pride
		17.4 Relational greatness
		17.5 The secular transposition
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 18 Faith and humility: Conflict or concord?
		18.1 The limitations-owning theory of the virtue of humility
		18.2 Thomistic faith
		18.3 Markan faith
		18.4 Markan faith and humility in the intellectual domain
		18.5 Thomistic faith, Markan faith, and humility in the domain of personal relationships
		18.6 Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 19 Humility in the Islamic tradition
		19.1 The ethics of virtue in a scriptural paradigm
		19.2 Humility as self-assessment
		19.3 Humility as moral commitment
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 20 Buddhist humility
		20.1 Buddhism and the context of humility
		20.2 Buddhist conceptions of pride
		20.3 Non-self: an interlude
		20.4 What’s bad about pride?
		20.5 A distinctive humility
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 21 Humility in early Confucianism
		21.1 Early Confucian terms for ‘humility’
		21.2 Communal harmony and the self
		21.3 Humility and two kinds of self-concern
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 22 Humility and the African philosophy of ubuntu
		22.1 Introduction
		22.2 An analysis of humility
		22.3 African ethics and humility
			22.3.1 An ethical interpretation of ubuntu
			22.3.2 Ubuntu and humility
		22.4 African moral epistemology and humility
		22.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part 5 The epistemology of humility
	Chapter 23 Intellectual humility and contemporary epistemology: A critique of epistemic individualism, evidentialism and internalism
		23.1 Humility and intellectual humility characterized
		23.2 Epistemic individualism defined
		23.3 Evidentialism defined
		23.4 Internalism defined
			23.4.1 Internalism and scepticism
			23.4.2 An analogy to the practical realm
		23.5 The externalist turn in epistemology
		23.6 An anti-evidentialist turn
		23.7 Social epistemic dependence
		23.8 Reductionism and anti-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 24 Humility and self-knowledge
		24.1 Humility as a virtue of ignorance
		24.2 Humility as a virtue of self-knowledge
		24.3 Humility as a virtue of low self-focus
		24.4 Humility as hopeful attitude to self
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 25 Intellectual humility and epistemic trust
		25.1 Epistemic trust
		25.2 Intellectual humility
		25.3 Intellectual humility and epistemic self-trust
		25.4 Intellectual humility and epistemic trust in others
			25.4.1 The intellectually humble hearer of testimony
			25.4.2 The intellectually humble speaker of testimony
		25.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 26 Intellectual humility, testimony, and epistemic injustice
		26.1 How testimonial exchanges can fail
		26.2 Testimonial injustice
		26.3 Epistemic injustice and intellectual humility and failures in testimonial exchange
		26.4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References:
	Chapter 27 False intellectual humility
		27.1 An analysis of false intellectual humility
		27.2 Insincere self-attributions of ignorance
		27.3 Fallibilism, skepticism, and intellectual humility
		27.4 False skepticism and false fallibilism
			27.4.1 Conspiracy thinking
			27.4.2 Amateurism
			27.4.3 Science denial
		27.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 28 Intellectual humility and argumentation
		28.1 Argumentum ad verecundiam
		28.2 Principle of charity
		28.3 Critical thinking dispositions
		28.4 Deliberative virtues
		28.5 Virtue theories of argumentation
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 29 Intellectual humility and assertion
		29.1 Introduction
		29.2 Intellectual humility
		29.3 Epistemic norms governing assertion
		29.4 Assertion and humility
			29.4.1 First ramification
			29.4.2 Second ramification
		29.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 30 Humility, contingency, and pluralism in the sciences
		30.1 Introduction
		30.2 Some initial characterisations
		30.3 Some broad claims
		30.4 Levels of humility in science
		30.5 Epistemic humility within the philosophy of science
			30.5.1 Contingency and science
			30.5.2 The modern contingency debate
			30.5.3 Deep contingency
			30.5.4 Pluralism
		Related topics
		Biographical note
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 31 Humean Humility and its contemporary echoes
		31.1 Hume’s critique of the modern philosophy
		31.2. Russellian Monism
		31.3. Ramseyan Humility
		31.4 Responses to Humean Humility, Russellian Monism, and Ramseyan Humility
			31.4.1 Holistic understanding
			31.4.2 Reid’s definition of straightness
			31.4.3 Causal structuralism
		31.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part 6 The psychology of humility
	Chapter 32 Humility in personality and positive psychology
		32.1 Introduction
		32.2 Intellectual humility as a character trait
		32.3 Need for cognition
		32.4 Need for closure
		32.5 Intellectual humility and personality: The Big 5
		32.6 Intellectual humility and personality: The Big 2
		32.7 Both trait and situation in intellectual humility
		32.8 Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 33 Psychological measurement of humility
		33.1 Themes in the conceptualization of humility as reflected in its measurement
		33.2 Dimensions on which psychological measures of humility vary
			33.2.1 Source
			33.2.2 Expression
			33.2.3 Specificity
			33.2.4 Stability
		33.3 Choosing a measurement approach
		33.4 Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 34 The moral psychology of humility: Epistemic and ethical alignment as foundational to moral exemplarity
		34.1 What is humility?
		34.2 The core of humility: epistemic and ethical alignment
		34.3 Why humility matters: healthy moral functioning
		34.4 Why humility matters: Moral exemplarity
		34.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 35 The role of knowledge calibration in intellectual humility
		35.1 Knowledge miscalibration and its origins
		35.2 The challenge of knowledge miscalibration
		35.3 Consequences of overconfidence
		35.4 Benefits of overconfidence
		35.5 Underconfidence
		35.6 Efforts to increase intellectual humility
		35.7 Conclusion
		Note
		References
Part 7 Humility: Applications to the social world
	Chapter 36 Humility and terrorism studies
		36.1
		36.2
		36.3
		36.4
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 37 ‘Knowledge is power’: Barriers to intellectual humility in the classroom
		37.1 ‘Knowledge is power’
		37.2 Winning by knowing
		37.3 Answer-oriented education
			37.3.1 Assessment practices
			37.3.2 Teaching practices
			37.3.3 Education theory
			37.3.4 Student behaviour
		37.4 Answer-oriented education as a barrier to intellectual humility
			37.4.1 Questioning and intellectual humility
			37.4.2 Student questions as a form of intellectual humility
		37.5 Question-oriented education
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 38 Humility in law
		38.1 Introduction
		38.2 Humility as an adjudicative virtue
		38.3 Humility and professional organization
		38.4 Humility and professional practice
		38.5 Humility and professional development
		38.6 Enhancing humility in the legal professions
		38.7 Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 39 Extended cognition and humility
		39.1 Extended cognition
		38.2 Cognitively extended humility
		38.3 Cognitively extended intellectual humility
		38.4 Concluding remarks
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 40 Arrogance and servility online: Humility is not the solution
		40.1 The background: Deeply social epistemology
		40.2 Deeply social knowledge and epistemic humility
		40.3 Whence the virtue?
		40.4 Epistemic humility and social media
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 41 Humility in social networks
		41.1 Introduction
		41.2 H-traits and myside bias
		41.3 H-traits and ourside bias
		41.4 Rescuing h-traits via the gadfly, curiosity, and solitude
			41.4.1 H-traits and the gadfly
			41.4.2 H-traits and curiosity
			41.4.3 H-traits and solitude
		Notes
		References
Index