This volume deals with epistemic virtues from history of the humanities, philosophical, media-, and literary studies perspectives. A focal point is the relationship between scientific and socio-cultural or moral norms.

Epistemic virtues are qualities of the researching subject that are viewed in epistemic cultures as a requirement for the production, mediation, or acquisition of knowledge. They cannot be reduced to an abstract ought, as ethics commissions or political movements often bring to the attention of the humanities. The methodological generation of knowledge would hardly be possible if there were not cognitive virtues such as patience, awareness, precision, intuition, truthfulness, curiosity, rigor, or reliability to stabilize the precarious process of knowledge procurement and guide it in a certain direction. This volume deals with epistemic virtues from history of the humanities, philosophical, media-, and literary studies perspectives. A focal point is the relationship between scientific and socio-cultural or moral norms.

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Geboren 1978; Studium der Geschichte, der Philosophie und der Politikwissenschaft; seit 2015 Assistent am Lehrstuhl Geschichte der Neuzeit und Schweizer Geschichte der Forschungsstelle für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte an der Universität Zürich. Geboren 1969; Studium der Philosophie, Allgemeinen Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft und Neueren Geschichte; 2003 Promotion; seit 2014 Assistenzprofessor für Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft an der Universität Wien. Geboren 1974; Studium der Germanistik, Geschichte und Philosophie; 2005 Promotion; 2010 Habilitation; seit 2011 Programmdirektor und Seminar- bzw. (seit 2015) Abteilungsleiter für AVL an der Universität Zürich.