Our project, “Philosophical Traditions and Epistemic Virtues”, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, seeks to assess to what extent training and practice in Buddhist, Confucian, Christian, and analytic philosophy enhance the key epistemic virtues of intellectual humility, wisdom, curiosity, and reflectiveness.

A clear demonstration of philosophy’s contribution to the development of epistemic virtues, in the diversity of its traditions, will promote reflection on the functions and value of philosophical education, and help justify the regularly threatened place of philosophy in undergraduate education.