The Importance of Control

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I think that the discussion of this issue is is kind of really complicated. With respect to at least some vices I Don't think that I don't think that control is a really big issue if you think of vices that take the form of attitudes To say that we have control over them is to say that it's possible for us to change or alter our attitudes. It seems to me that it would be old to say, you know That he's straightforwardly blame worthy for his attitudes Maybe blame isn't quite the right notion here, but nevertheless, I think it's perfectly reasonable to criticize to criticize his attitudes Right?

All of us have been wrong about things from time to time. But sometimes it was a simple, forgivable mistake, while other times we really should have been correct. Properties that systematically prevent us from being correct, and for which we can legitimately be blamed, are “intellectual vices.” Examples might include closed-mindedness, wishful thinking, overconfidence, selective attention, and so on. Quassim Cassam is a philosopher who studies knowledge in various forms, and who has recently written a book Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political. We talk about the nature of intellectual vices, how they manifest in people and in organizations, and what we can possibly do to correct them in ourselves.

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Quassim Cassam received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He previously held faculty positions at Cambridge University and University College London. He has served as the president of the Aristotelian Society, and was awarded a Leadership Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.

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