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Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance.

In this paper, I provide a characterisation of a neglected form of humility: magnanimous humility. Unlike most contemporary analyses of humility, magnanimous humility is not about limitations but instead presupposes that one possesses some entitlement in a context. I suggest that magnanimous intelle...

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Published in:Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 110; no. 2; pp. 604 - 623
Main Author: Yip, Brandon
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2025
Subjects:
Humility
Epistemics
Virtues
Personality
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