CONTENTS

List of contributors ix

Acknowledgements xii

Introduction 1

Mark Alfano, Michael P Lynch and Alessandra Tanesini

PART 1

Theories of humility 7

1 Theories of humility:An overview 9

Nancy E.

2 “I am so humble!”: On the paradoxes of humility 26

Brian Robinson

3 Humility is not a virtue 36

Paul Bloomfield

PART 2

The ethics of humility 47

4 Humility and human flourishing 49

Robert Roberts

5 Humility and self-respect: Kantian and feminist perspectives 59

Robin S. Dillon

6 The puzzle of humility and disparity 72

Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, Jason Baehr and Daniel Howard-Snyder

7 Humility and truth in Nietzsche: The humblebrag of the lambs 84

Nickolas Pappas

8 The comparative concern in humility and romantic love 97

Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

9 Pride and humility 106

Michael S. Brady

10 Ashamed of our selves: Disabling shame and humility 117

E.M. Dadlez and Sarah H.Woolwine

PART 3

The politics of humility 127

11 A humble form of government: Democracy as the politics of collective

experience 129

Michael A. Neblo and Emily Ann Israelson

12 Conviction and humility 139

Michael P. Lynch

13 Humility and the toleration of diverse ideas 148

Casey Rebecca Johnson

14 Humility, forgiveness, and restorative justice: From the personal to the political 157 Carl Stauffer

15 Can humility be a liberatory virtue? 170

Heather Battaly

PART 4

Humility in religious thought 185

16 Humility among the ancient Greeks 187

Sophie Grace Chappell

17 Aquinas on humility and relational greatness 202

Andrew Charles Pinsent

18 Faith and humility: Conflict or concord? 212

Daniel Howard-Snyder and Daniel J. McKaughan

19 Humility in the Islamic tradition 225

Sophia Vasalou

20 Buddhist humility 236

Nicolas Bommarito

21 Humility in early Confucianism 245

Alexus McLeod

22 Humility and the African philosophy of ubuntu 257

Thaddeus Metz

PART 5

The epistemology of humility 269

23 Intellectual humility and contemporary epistemology: A critique of

epistemic individualism, evidentialism and internalism 271

John Greco

24 Humility and self-knowledge 283

Alessandra Tanesini

25 Intellectual humility and epistemic trust 292

Katherine Dormandy

26 Intellectual humility, testimony, and epistemic injustice 303

Ian M. Church

27 False intellectual humility 313

Allan Hazlett

28 Intellectual humility and argumentation 325

Andrew Aberdein

29 Intellectual humility and assertion 335

J.

30 Humility, contingency, and pluralism in the sciences 346

Ian James Kidd

31 Humean Humility and its contemporary echoes 359

James Van Cleve

PART 6

The psychology of humility 373

32 Humility in personality and positive psychology 375

Peter L. Samuelson and Ian M. Church

33 Psychological measurement of humility 387

Rick H. Hoyle and Elizabeth Krumrei Mancuso

34 The moral psychology of humility: Epistemic and ethical alignment as

foundational to moral exemplarity 401

Jennifer Cole Wright

35 The role of knowledge calibration in intellectual humility 411

Nicholas Light and Philip Fernbach

PART 7

Humility: Applications to the social world 425

36 Humility and terrorism studies 427

Quassim Cassam

37 ‘Knowledge is power’: Barriers to intellectual humility in the classroom 439 Lani Watson

38 Humility in law 451

Amalia Amaya

39 Extended cognition and humility 464

Duncan Pritchard

40 Arrogance and servility online: Humility is not the solution 472

Neil Levy

41 Humility in social networks 484

Mark Alfano and Emily Sullivan

Index 495