Bridging the Fact/Value Divide in Wisdom Research: The Development of Expertise in Wise Decision-Making.
What are the relations among wisdom, virtue, and expertise? Wisdom can be defined broadly as knowledge about how to live well. At the least, the task of living well requires some conception of what it means for a life to be good as well as the knowledge and skill needed to actualize the good in one'...
| Published in: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 937 - 950 |
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