Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2022
Abstract
According to one prominent account of intellectual humility, it consists primarily of a disposition to “own” one’s intellectual limitations. This account has been criticized for neglecting the interpersonal dimensions of intellectual humility. We expect intellectually humble persons to be respectful and generous with their interlocutors and to avoid being haughty or domineering. I defend the limitations-owning account against this objection. I do so in two ways: first, by arguing that some of the interpersonal qualities associated with intellectual humility are qualities expressive of virtues other than intellectual humility; and second, by arguing that, when properly described, the kind of limitations-owning characteristic of intellectual humility in fact is robustly interpersonal. The result is a considerably broader and richer notion of the limitations the owning of which is characteristic of intellectual humility.
Original Publication Citation
Baehr, J. (2022). Limitations-Owning and the Interpersonal Dimensions of Intellectual Humility. Scientia Et Fides, 10(2), 69–82. https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2022.019
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Baehr, Jason, "Limitations-Owning and Interpersonal Dimension of Intellectual Humility" (2022). Philosophy Faculty Works. 292.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/phil_fac/292
