 Kvanvig sees at least two ways this new approach would feature the virtues. First, virtues are essential to understanding the cognitive life of the mind, particularly development and learning, which happens over time through various processes, such as imitating virtuous agents and taking to heart cautionary tales of vice. Second, virtues are essential in characterizing cognitive ideals. For example, one way of organizing information is better than another, Kvanvig argues, because in appropriate circumstances that’s how an intellectually virtuous person would organize it.