Values and Virtues for a Challenging World: Volume 92: (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements)

We live in an increasingly unpredictable physical and social environment. Climate change, viral pandemics, wars, and mass migrations present significant challenges, while new technologies and media are transforming the ways we understand ourselves and think about our political situations. Which attitudes, skills, and values should we cultivate to enable us to respond well to the challenges of this changing world? The essays in this volume emphasise the importance of creativity, collaboration, understanding, and wisdom in dealing with one another and thinking about novel and unforeseen difficulties. Through better reasoning, we can reduce the influence of immediate responses and attune our responses to how the world really is and what really matters. The book aims to begin a conversation about how to foster better reasoning about new challenges through our education system, the structures of our organisations, the regulation of social-and- mass media, and the designs of buildings and urban spaces.

Table of Contents:
Notes on the Contributors; Introduction Anneli Jefferson, Orestis Palermos, Panos Paris and Jonathan Webber; 1. Group creativity Berys Gaut; 2. Collective responsibility should be treated as a virtue Mandi Astola; 3. Reclaiming care and privacy in the age of social media Hugh Desmond; 4. Deepfakes, Intellectual cynics, and the cultivation of digital sensibility Taylor Matthews; 5. Affective polarisation and emotional distortions on social media Alessandra Tanesini; 6. Self-regulation and political confabulation Kathleen Murphy-Hollies; 7. Cultivating curiosity in the information age Lani Watson; 8. Practical wisdom and the value of cognitive diversity Anneli Jefferson and Katrina Sifferd; 9. The need for phronesis Kristján Kristjánsson; 10. Integrity as the goal of character education Jonathan Webber; 11. Empathy and loving attention Carissa Phillips-Garrett; 12. On the importance of beauty and taste Panos Paris; 13. Relativism, fallibilism, and the need for interpretive charity Nadine Elzein; 14. Uncertainty phobia and epistemic forbearance in a pandemic Nicholas Shackel; 15. The virtue of hope in a turbulent world Cathy Mason; Index of Names.