Forum for Virtue and Understanding

Description

The Forum for Virtue and Understanding (FVU) was launched in 2019 with the aim of bringing together work on the virtues with work in the philosophy of understanding.

While researchers at FVU are interested in issues pertaining to (a) the virtues and (b) understanding in their own rights, the forum enables members to collaborate on issues uniting these two fields of enquiry. This includes, but is not limited to, questions such as:

• Does epistemic well-being amount to having true beliefs, knowledge, or understanding?
• How do compassion, love, empathy, and patience relate to understanding?
• Are human vices and virtues universal or context-dependent?
• Is understanding a form of wisdom reducible to knowledge or explanation?
• Is the understanding of people (including oneself) a distinct intellectual achievement from the understanding of the rest of the world?

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2019

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University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield