Jason Baehr is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Baehr works at the intersection of virtue theory and epistemology, especially “virtue epistemology,” which is an approach to the philosophical study of knowledge that focuses on intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual humility, intellectual courage, and intellectual tenacity. Baehr’s monograph on virtue epistemology, The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
Recently Baehr has been published several journal articles and book chapters on the relationship between intellectual virtues and topics like knowledge, agency, wisdom, situationism, and civil discourse. He has also been involved with the application of virtue epistemology to educational theory and practice. In this capacity he has overseen two major grant projects (totaling over $1 million) sponsored by the John T empleton Foundation, helped found the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach (a new charter school in Long Beach, CA), and edited a collection of papers from leading virtue epistemologists and philosophers of education titled Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology (Routledge, 2106). Baehr currently administrates Educating for Intellectual Virtues (http://intellectualvirtues.org), a website devoted to the practice of "intellectual character education," which is aimed at helping students grow in intellectual virtues in the context of academic teaching and learning.
Jason Baehr 
Professor of Philosophy
Los Angeles , CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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University of Washington
Ph.D., Philosophy
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EpistemologyVirtue TheoryVirtue EpistemologyPhilosophy of Education
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John Templeton Foundation Grantee | professional
Awarded two grants in 2012 totaling more than $1 million from the John Templeton Foundation for projects involving the application of virtue epistemology to educational theory and practice.
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PHIL 6998 Virtue Epistemology
PHIL 6998 Virtue Epistemology
PHIL 1800 Philosophical Inquiry
PHIL 1800 Philosophical Inquiry
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Virtue
Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology
Forthcoming. eds. Fred Aquino and William Abraham (Oxford University Press)
The Situationist Challenge to Educating for Intellectual Virtues
Epistemic Situationism
Forthcoming. eds. Abrol Fairweather and Mark Alfano (Oxford University Press)
Intellectual Virtues and Truth, Understanding, and Wisdom
Oxford Handbook of Virtue
Forthcoming. ed. Nancy Snow (Oxford University Press)
Honesty's Threshold
Moral Psychology
Forthcoming in Vol. 5: Virtues and Vices, ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (The MIT Press)
Intellectual Virtues and Educational Practice
Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
Forthcoming. ed. Michael Peters (Springer)
Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, and the Aims of Education
Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology
Forthcoming. eds. Peter Graham, Miranda Fricker, David Henderson, Nikolaj Pedersen, and Jeremy Wyatt
Is Creativity an Intellectual Virtue?
Creativity and Philosophy
Forthcoming. eds. Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran (Routledge)
Varieties of Character and Some Implications for Character Education
Journal of Youth and Adolescence Special Issue
Forthcoming. eds. Richard Lerner, Scott Seider, and Eranda Jayawickreme
Is Intellectual Character Growth a Realistic Educational Aim?
Journal of Moral Education 45.2
(2016): pp. 117-31
Responsibilist Virtues and the 'Charmed Inner Circle' of Traditional Epistemology
Philosophical Studies
(2016): pp. 1-13. DOI:10.1007/s11098-016-0734-z
Four Dimensions of an Intellectual Virtue
Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy
(Routledge, 2015). pp. 86-98. eds. Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa, and Chienkuo Mi.
The Situationist Challenge to Educating for Intellectual Virtues
Epistemic Situationism
eds. Abrol Fairweather and Mark Alfano (Oxford University Press)
Character Virtues, Knowledge, and Epistemic Agency
Current Controversies in Virtue Theory
(Routledge, 2015): pp. 74-90. ed. Mark Alfano
Intellectual Humility: Owning our Limitations
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Online version published on 17 August 2015, DOI: 10.1111/phpr.1228. Co-authors: Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, and Dan Howard-Snyder
Sophia
Virtues and their Vices
(Oxford University Press, 2014): pp. 303-26. eds. Kevin Timpe and Craig Boyd
Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?
Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Second Edition
A debate with Linda Zagzebski, (Blackwell, 2013): pp. 133-51. eds. Matthias Steup and John Turri
Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to Practice
Journal for the Philosophy of Education
(2013): Issue 47.2 pp. 248-62.