Tuesday, December 31, 2024

A ranking of intellectual virtues and vices

 A ranking of intellectual virtues and vices: first the "raw data" and then ChatGPT's analysis of it.

Prompt:

For a teaching-related project, I wonder if people would be willing to state what they think the most important intellectual (or epistemic) virtues are, and the most important intellectual (or epistemic) vices are.

3 to 5 ideas of each might be ideal, in the comments.

If you could try to do this without first looking at others' responses, that would be great.

I am trying to get some kind of ranking of importance.

I will share the rankings afterwards.

See below the fold.

RAW DATA

Blue = teaching philosophy group

Red = epistemology group


 

Most important epistemic virtues:

 

·         intellectual responsibility.

·         open mindedness.

·         have a sense of purpose.

·         humility.

·         courage.

·         Clarity

·         Humility

·         Love/compassion (hermeneutic charity)

·         Patience/self-control (analytical care/attentiveness/thoroughness),

·         Honesty/integrity (openness to criticism)

·         courage,

·         curiosity,

·         proper confidence;

·         Curiosity,

·         humility, and

·         doggedness, and doggedness is something more than mere "patience": it’s Pigheadedness. Tenacity. Keeping at a problem that is solvable even if you had that solved it. Not giving up. Stick-to-it-iveness.

·         proper confidence instead of humility

·         gratitude

·         Intellectual humility,

·         curiosity,

·         perseverance

·         pro-resilience but fairly anti-grit

·         humility,

·         curiosity,

·         gratitude,

·         perseverance

·         conscientiousness

·         curiosity

·         honesty

·         curiosity,

·         diligence,

·         honesty.

·         Receptivity,

·         humility,

·         curiosity

·         curiosity

·         tenacity

·         prudence

·         wit

·         inventiveness

·         courage;

·         insight;

·         the virtue I'm not sure how to name that is about directing curiosity towards the most interesting or important questions, given the circumstances

·         open-mindedness: the ability to inhabit perspectives and ideas that you don't endorse. (I call this practice conceptual tourism, but I can't think of the ability term. Dexterity, maybe)

·         carefulness / caution

·         intellectual humility (esp. recognizing your limitations)

·         non-biased memory, to avoid confirmation bias

·         epistemic playfulness (gotta be combined with the carefulness / caution, though!)

·         humility, intellectual independence/autonomy, intellectual rigor.

·         Epistemic humility-the ability to acknowledge that you may be wrong.

·         Willingness to stick to your guns (at least for a bit),

·         openness to follow the argument,

·         perseverance (in the sense of: you don't just give up trying to understand something if you don't get it right a way).

·         The love of truth and understanding;

·         honesty,

·         curiosity,

·         persistence,

·         rigor;

·         a nose for relevance, salience, and importance;

·         impatience with bullshit, received opinion, motivated reasoning, the flattery of power, and groupthink.

·         Intellectual humility,

·         resilience,

·         charity.

·         Open-mindedness

·         You sincerely desire to hear and understand all the arguments and evidence of those who oppose your views

·         You can argue for your strongest opponents' views at least as well as their best defenders can; you can satisfy them that they are understood.

·         You like to dismiss nothing.

·         You'd rather be on the right side and lose, than be on the wrong side and win

·         Curiosity.

 

Most important epistemic vices:

 

·         dogmatism,

·         closed-mindedness,

·         defensiveness

·         laziness,

·         dogmatism,

·         dishonesty

·         misology,

·         conspiratorial thinking,

·         grandiosity.

·         arrogance,

·         defensiveness,

·         mendacity

·         closed mindedness

·         epistemic apathy

·         whatever is the opposite of perseverance

·         epistemic arrogance

·         impatience

·         intolerance of questioning and disagreement;

·         anchoring too stubbornly to common sense;

·         doubting too easily when challenged

·         Recalcitrance,

·         purposeful misunderstanding,

·         complacency.

·         Laziness

·         closed mindedness

·         forgetfulness

·         susceptibility to conformation bias

·         close mindedness,

·         arrogance/dogmatism,

·         credulity/gullibility,

·         susceptibility to motivated reasoning/wishful thinking

·         dogmatism or closed-mindedness,

·         gullibility,

·         carelessness or laziness



 

 

ChatGPT, below is a list of intellectual or epistemic virtues. Please rank them according to the frequency that they, or similar virtues, are given, so that the most mentioned virtues are at the top of the list.

Below is the ranking of virtues according to their frequency in your list, with the most mentioned virtues at the top. When similar virtues or phrases refer to the same concept, I've grouped them together.

  1. Curiosity
  2. Humility (including intellectual humility and epistemic humility)
  3. Open-mindedness
  4. Perseverance (including doggedness, persistence, tenacity, stick-to-it-iveness)
  5. Honesty/Integrity
  6. Courage
  7. Patience/Self-control (including attentiveness, analytical care, thoroughness)
  8. Gratitude
  9. Clarity
  10. Proper confidence
  11. Receptivity
  12. Love/compassion (including hermeneutic charity and epistemic charity)
  13. Carefulness/Caution
  14. Resilience
  15. Conscientiousness
  16. Insight
  17. Inventiveness
  18. Prudence
  19. Wit
  20. Epistemic playfulness
  21. Non-biased memory (to avoid confirmation bias)
  22. Rigor
  23. A nose for relevance, salience, and importance
  24. Impatience with biases (bullshit, groupthink, flattery of power, motivated reasoning)
  25. Willingness to stick to your guns (at least for a bit)
  26. Love of truth and understanding
  27. You sincerely desire to understand opposing arguments
  28. Ability to argue for opponents' views as well as they can
  29. Preference for being on the right side even when it’s unpopular

This ranking emphasizes the virtues most often repeated, suggesting their importance in discussions of intellectual or epistemic virtues.

ChatGPT, below is a list of intellectual or epistemic vices. Please rank them according to the frequency that they, or similar vices, are given, so that the most mentioned vices are at the top of the list.

Below is the ranking of the intellectual or epistemic vices in your list, grouped by similarity and ordered by frequency of mention, with the most mentioned vices at the top:

  1. Closed-mindedness (including close-mindedness, intolerance of questioning and disagreement)
  2. Dogmatism (including arrogance/dogmatism)
  3. Defensiveness
  4. Laziness (including carelessness or laziness)
  5. Arrogance (including epistemic arrogance, grandiosity)
  6. Dishonesty (including mendacity)
  7. Gullibility/Credulity
  8. Impatience
  9. Susceptibility to biases (including confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, wishful thinking)
  10. Misology (hatred of reasoning)
  11. Complacency
  12. Recalcitrance
  13. Conspiratorial thinking
  14. Epistemic apathy
  15. Purposeful misunderstanding
  16. Forgetfulness
  17. Anchoring too stubbornly to common sense
  18. Doubting too easily when challenged

This ranking prioritizes repetition and closely related ideas, highlighting the most commonly referenced vices in the list.

 

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