The Virtue of Open-Mindedness and Perspective
Series: The Virtues;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 July 2025
- ISBN 9780190080686
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 210x140 mm
- Weight 317 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This multi-disciplinary volume of new essays shows us the value and influence of open-mindedness on our lives. Bringing to bear a variety of perspectives, the essays examine cognitive and conceptual architecture, popular culture, colonialization, and arts training. Together they redefine the boundaries of open-mindedness and perspective in favor of a rich and complex conception.
MoreLong description:
It is hard to underestimate the value and influence that open-mindedness can have on our lives. Indeed, our success often depends crucially on our ability to interact with others, and the quality of those interactions. We are, after all, not the generic, abstract, isolated, self-sufficient agents assumed by a classically Cartesian theoretical framework. It is in our best interest to realize this falsehood, and act with our true selves to rectify that, to live better.
Yet of course open-mindedness and perspective can also be responsible for some of our most catastrophic epistemic failures. Conspiracy theories, group-think, echo chambers, charismatic charlatans, identity politic-s-these are all phenomena by which individuals can be led astray precisely by being open to the influence of others. Being epistemically successful as a human, in our particular predicament, requires being "appropriately" open to the influence of others.
This multi-disciplinary volume of new essays shows us a path forward. Bringing to bear a variety of perspectives, the essays examine cognitive and conceptual architecture, popular culture, colonialization, and arts training. Together they redefine the boundaries of open-mindedness and perspective in favor of a rich and complex conception of these ever-important virtues.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Perspectival Complacency, Perversion, and Amelioration
Perspective-Taking and a Flexible Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Open-Mindedness
A Trickster's Sideways Look at Open-Mindedness as a Virtue: A Native American Perspective
Free Speech and Challenges to Open-Mindedness in Higher Education
Jacques Copeau's Theater and Masks: Actor Training as Formation in Open-Mindedness
How to Be Open-Minded: Ask Good Questions (and Listen to the Answers)
