Science and Virtue : an Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character.

Charting new territory in the interface between science and ethics, Science and Virtue is a study of how the scientific mentality can affect the building of character, or the attainment of virtue by the individual. Drawing on inspiration from virtue-ethics and virtue-epistemology, Caruana argues tha...

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Main Author: Caruana, Louis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2007.
Series:Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.
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