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Epistemic virtue

The epistemic virtues, as identified by virtue epistemologists, reflect their contention that belief is an ethical process, and thus susceptible to the intellectual virtue or vice of one's thought life. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the question "How do we know?" Some epistemic virtues have been identified by W. Jay Wood, based on research into the medieval tradition. The list below substantially overlaps with his.

These can be contrasted to the epistemic vices such as: Note that in this context curiosity bears the medieval connotation of attraction to unwholesome things, in contrast to the positive ''studious" (or perhaps 'inquisitive').

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