Intellectual Humility: Owning Our Limitations

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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 94 (3):509-539 (2017)
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What is intellectual humility? In this essay, we aim to answer this question by assessing several contemporary accounts of intellectual humility, developing our own account, offering two reasons for our account, and meeting two objections and solving one puzzle

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Jason Baehr
Loyola Marymount University
Heather Battaly
University of Connecticut
Dennis Whitcomb
Western Washington University
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