This week's podcast features Dr. Heather Battaly from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Battaly is a leading thinker on the study of intellectual virtues and vices. This week Dr. Battaly shares her thoughts concerning close-mindedness as a (mostly) intellectual vice, her recent work on the idea of liberatory virtues, and what sea cucumbers taste like.  Check out some of Dr. Battaly's recent books, Virtue, and Virtue and Vice: Moral and Epistemic