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Jeanne Nakamura

Learning from Exemplars

Commentary on Timothy Reilly's Paper »Exemplarity and Virtue: Understanding Virtuous Exemplarity in Science«

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Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences (PTSc)

Volume 5 (2018) / Issue 2, pp. 172-180 (9)

Published 16.04.2019

DOI 10.1628/ptsc-2018-0015

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This commentary discusses the value of exemplar research. Then, based on Timothy Reilly's paper »Exemplarity and Virtue: Understanding Virtuous Exemplarity in Science,« it considers what can be learned about virtue in the practice of science, and human flourishing more broadly, by comparing different types of exemplars.