ABSTRACT
It is important for students to develop both sorts of virtues; people want to help them develop responsibilist virtues like open-mindedness, in addition to reliabilist virtues like logical skills. Several contemporary virtue epistemologists have argued that responsibilist virtues, like open-mindedness and intellectual humility, are not only objectively valuable but intrinsically valuable. As reliabilist virtues, logical skills aren't games people idly play; nor are they restricted for use in logic classrooms. Instead, people could use activities that are already present in our courses-classroom discussions, paper assignments-to simultaneously help students understand course content and develop responsibilist virtues. Since the primary goal of critical thinking courses is to help students develop logical skills, it is thus appropriate for such courses to introduce responsibilist virtues. It is reasonable to think that the acquisition of responsibilist virtues will causally influence the acquisition of reliabilist virtues. Learning about responsibilist virtues will help students apply the categories of intellectual action, emotion, and motivation to themselves and others.
