Ian James Kidd is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Heather Battaly is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Quassim Cassam is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK.

Essential reading for students of ethics, epistemology, and virtue theory, and various areas of applied, feminist, and social philosophy. It will also be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and activists in politics, law and education.

Introduction: from epistemic vices to vice epistemology Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly, and Quassim Cassam Part 1: Foundational Issues 1. The structure of intellectual vices Jason Baehr 2. The metaphysical foundations of vice epistemology Quassim Cassam 3. Ignorance, arrogance, and privilege: vice epistemology and the epistemology of ignorance Alessandra Tanesini 4. Epistemic corruption and social oppression Ian James Kidd Part 2: Collectives, institutions, and networks 5. Institutional epistemic vices: the case of inferential inertia Miranda Fricker 6. Capital vices, institutional failures, and epistemic neglect in a county jail José Medina 7. Implicit bias and epistemic vice Jules Holroyd 8. Vectors of epistemic insecurity Emily Sullivan and Mark Alfano Part 3: Analyses of specific vices 9. Quitting, procrastinating, and slacking off Heather Battaly 10. Epistemic insensitivity: an insidious and consequential vice Maura Priest 11. Intellectual snobs Charlie Crerar Part 4: Applied vice epistemology 12. Teaching to the test: how schools discourse phronesis Casey Johnson 13. Vices of questioning in public discourse Lani Watson. Index