ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nature and characteristic psychology of intellectual transparency. Intellectual transparency is conceptualized as a tendency to faithfully share one’s perspective with others out of a motivation to promote their epistemic goods for its own sake. The intellectual transparent person understands that sometimes they are in a position to enhance others’ epistemic well-being by sharing the varied aspects of their own perspective with others effectively. They are skilled in understanding their perspective and communicating it to others, and they tend to deploy these skills when doing so will benefit others. The chapter compares intellectual transparency so understood to similar virtues such as honesty, sincerity, and intellectual humility, identifying both what these traits share in common and what makes intellectual transparency distinct. It also contrasts intellectual transparency with opposing vices such as intellectual grandiosity and intellectual timidity, which, unlike intellectual transparency, tend to lead their possessor to represent their perspective as being either stronger or weaker than it is.
