Can We Measure Practical Wisdom?

Autor/in	Swartwood, Jason
Titel	Can We Measure Practical Wisdom?
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 49 (2020) 1, S.71-97 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Swartwood, Jason)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2019.1702933
Schlagwörter	Measures (Individuals); Individual Characteristics; Philosophy; Ethics; Expertise; Success; Personality Traits; Logical Thinking; Knowledge Level; Testing Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messdaten; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Philosophie; Ethik; Expert appraisal; Erfolg; Individual characteristics; Wissensbasis
Abstract	Wisdom, long a topic of interest to moral philosophers, is increasingly the focus of social science research. Philosophers have historically been concerned to develop a rationally defensible account of the nature of wisdom and its role in the moral life, often inspired in various ways by virtue theoretical accounts of practical wisdom ("phronesis"). Wisdom scientists seek to, among other things, define wisdom and its components so that we can measure them. Are the measures used by wisdom scientists actually measuring what philosophers have in mind when they discuss practical wisdom? I argue that they are not. Contemporary measures of wisdom and its components may pick out some necessary prerequisites of practical wisdom, but they do not measure a philosophically plausible practical wisdom or its components. After explaining the argument and defending it against objections, I consider its implications. Should wisdom scientists ignore the philosophical conception of practical wisdom in favor of other conceptions, revise their methods to try to measure it, or continue the interdisciplinary study of practical wisdom without expecting to measure it? I make a preliminary argument for the third option. (As Provided).
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