ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we consider how our understanding of virtue epistemology might be enhanced by exploring it in light of a series of broad environmental contexts—ranging from the impacts of local environments on our epistemic lives (and the impacts of natural and unpolluted environments in particular), to wider perspectives examining key virtues and vices relevant to studying the natural world and global environmental phenomena (including climate change), and working with others in deliberative bodies to arrive at effective environmental policies. In so doing, we find that devoting further attention to non-epistemic concerns—including our physical environments, moral and political attitudes, and deliberative group dynamics—will often enrich and deepen our theorizing concerning epistemic virtues and virtue epistemology as a whole.
