Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. With this book, Quassim Cassam gives a merchant account of the type and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first considerable coverage of vice epistemology, an exciting new area of philosophical study, Vices of the Mind uses real illustrations drawn primarily in the globe of about Vices of your brain: Through the Intellectual to the Politics politics to build up a powerful theory of epistemic vice. Cassam defends the look at that aswell as getting in the way of knowledge these vices are blameworthy or reprehensible. Important events like the 2003 Iraq Battle and the 2016 Brexit vote, and notable numbers including Donald Trump are analysed in detail to demonstrate what epistemic vice looks like in today’s world. The attributes covered within this landmark work add a hitherto unrecognized epistemic vice called ‘epistemic insouciance.’ Cassam examines both extent to which we are responsible for our failings as well as the factors which make it tough to know our very own vices.