ABSTRACT
A notable trend in recent virtue theory is the engagement with research in empirical psychology as it bears on central themes in both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology (e.g., Alfano 2013; Doris 2015; Fairweather and Montemayor 2013). Ours is another contribution to the confluence of these fields. We aim to expand the body of empirical literature considered relevant to virtue theory beyond the burned-over districts that are the situationist challenges to virtue ethics and epistemology. To do so, we will raise a rather simple-sounding question: why doesn’t virtue epistemology have an account of intelligence? With the exception of Alfano et al. (forthcoming), this essential question has received little attention (e.g., Driver 2001: 45; Baehr 2011: 25).
