#1256 Nathan King - The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Nathan King. He is professor of philosophy and Edward B. Lindemann and our chair at Whidworth University.
And today we're talking about his book, The Excellent Mind, Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life. So Dr. King, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have youone. Thanks so much for having me.
So uh what is the premise of your book and what motivated you to write it? Yeah, great. So I think probably the best way to answer that would be to say a little bit about the book's kind of origin story. So I can remember when I was a grad student just getting ready to to go on to the job markets, I had to write a statement of teaching philosophy. And I started thinking about, you know, how does this process, if it pans out well, how does it look for the students, right?
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