Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2025
Abstract
In this paper, I provide a characterisation of a neglected form of humility: magnanimous humility. Unlike most contemporary analyses of humility, magnanimous humility is not about limitations but instead presupposes that one possesses some entitlement in a context. I suggest that magnanimous intellectual humility (IH) consists in a disposition to appropriately refrain from exercising one's legitimate epistemic entitlements because one is appropriately motivated to pursue some epistemic good. I then shown that Magnanimous IH has an important role to play in contexts of disagreement and oppression. It calls on knowing parties to refrain from pressing their epistemic entitlements to facilitate mutual understanding. And it is a virtue that oppressed persons have good reason to cultivate in order to develop meta-lucidity in themselves and others.
Keywords
Humility, Intellectual Humility, Assertion, Knowledge, Disagreement, Epistemology of Resistance
Discipline
Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Volume
110
Issue
2
First Page
604
Last Page
622
ISSN
0031-8205
Identifier
10.1111/phpr.13117
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
YIP, Brandon.(2025). Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 110(2), 604-622.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4063
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.13117