A Virtue Epistemology

A Virtue Epistemology

Author: Ernest Sosa

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-06-28

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0199297029

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This volume presents the six John Locke lectures delivered by the author in Oxford in May and June of 2005.


Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa

Author: John Greco

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0470755474

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This is the first book devoted to the work of Ernest Sosa, one of the most influential contemporary epistemologists. Part of the acclaimed Philosophers and Their Critics series. The editor’s introduction serves as an introduction to Sosa’s epistemology. Contains critical essays by more than twenty of the most prominent epistemologists in the world, commenting on Sosa's work. Concludes with Sosa’s own reply to his critics.


Reflective Knowledge

Reflective Knowledge

Author: Ernest Sosa

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-01-08

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0199217254

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Reflective Knowledge draws together ground-breaking work in epistemology by Ernest Sosa. He argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on virtuous circularity, shows how this idea may be found explicitly or just below the surface in such illustrious predecessors as Descartes and Moore, and defends the view against its rivals.


Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa

Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa

Author: John Turri

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 9400759347

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This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa’s profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond. A balanced, fair and critical volume, it offers a sensitive appreciation of his wide philosophical purview, a nuanced assessment of the detail of his thought, and a spur to exploring the linkages between the varied topics explored by the subtle mind of this great American scholar. The papers explore a wealth of Sosa’s academic interests, including his work on philosophical method, the philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics, and value theory, in addition to his output on epistemology itself. It offers, for example, a rebuttal of the counterarguments to Sosa’s reliabilist theory of introspective justification, which itself concludes with some objections to Sosa’s stated views on the ‘speckled hen’ problem. Other authors track the connections of his virtue theory to his advocacy of bi-level epistemology, provide reflections on Sosa’s views on the epistemological tradition, and examine the nexus of his beliefs on intuition and philosophical methodology. This volume is an insightful reckoning of Sosa’s academic account.


Current Controversies in Virtue Theory

Current Controversies in Virtue Theory

Author: Mark Alfano

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1317541626

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Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival. However, new challenges to conceptions of virtue have also arisen. In Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, five pairs of cutting-edge philosophers square off over central topics in virtue theory: the nature of virtue, the connection between virtue and flourishing, the connection between moral and epistemic virtues, the way in which virtues are acquired, and the possibility of attaining virtue. Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list of further controversies to be explored.


Judgment and Agency

Judgment and Agency

Author: Ernest Sosa

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0198719698

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Ernest Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with issues of epistemic evaluation. While noting that human knowledge trades on distinctive psychological capacities, Sosa also emphasises the role of the social in human knowledge.


Virtue Epistemology

Virtue Epistemology

Author: John Greco

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780262017879

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This book is a collection of articles about epistemology. They include overviews of the field, investigations of the nature of knowledge, reflections on the value of knowledge, examinations of credit and luck, and explorations of future directions for research.


Intellectual Virtue

Intellectual Virtue

Author: Michael Raymond DePaul

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0199219125

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"Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.


Knowledge in Perspective

Knowledge in Perspective

Author: Ernest Sosa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-03-29

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780521396431

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Ernest Sosa collects essays, written over the last 25 years, on the scope and nature of human knowledge.


Epistemic Explanations

Epistemic Explanations

Author: Ernest Sosa

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-07-22

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0192598457

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Epistemic Explanations develops an improved virtue epistemology and uses it to explain several epistemic phenomena. Part I lays out a telic virtue epistemology that accommodates varieties of knowledge and understanding particularly pertinent to the humanities. Part II develops an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by relating it to degrees of confidence and to inquiry. Part III develops a substantially improved telic virtue epistemology by appeal to default assumptions important in domains of human performance generally, and in our intellectual lives as a special case. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now seems a first approximation. This part also introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories and defends in particular a category of secure knowledge.