Virtue Epistemology Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume I
Heftet /
2009
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780199568208
Published
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
220 gr
Height
215 mm
Width
134 mm
Thickness
9 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author
Biographical note
Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey.Sosa's book is admirable in its insistence that externalism is consistent with epistemic credit, and in its refusal to get bogged down in intuition slinging. Moreover, there are rich discussions of several topics, in particular the epistemic status of dreams and the force of intuitions in philosophy.
Adam Morton Mind Vol 118 Oct 2009
A Virtue Epistemology presents a new approach to some of the oldest and most gripping problems of philosophy, those of knowledge and scepticism. Ernest Sosa argues for two levels of knowledge, the animal and the reflective, each viewed as a distinctive human accomplishment. By adopting a kind of virtue epistemology in line with the tradition found in Aristotle, Aquinas, Reid, and especially Descartes, he presents an account of knowledge which can be used to shed light on different varieties of scepticism, the nature and status of intuitions, and epistemic normativity.
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Ernest Sosa presents a new approach to the problems of knowledge and scepticism. He argues for two levels of knowledge, the animal and the reflective, each viewed as a distinctive human accomplishment. Sosa's virtue epistemology illuminates different varieties of scepticism, the nature and status of intuitions, and epistemic normativity.
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Preface to the Two-volume work ; Preface and acknowledgements ; 1. Lecture One: Dreams and Philosophy ; 2. Lecture Two: A Virtue Epistemology ; 3. Lecture Three: Intuitions ; 4. Lecture Four: Epistemic Normativity ; 5. Lecture Five: Virtue, Luck, and Credit ; 6. Lecture Six: The Problem of the Criterion
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`Review from previous edition If you are interested enough in epistemology to be reading this review, then you must read the marvelous book...While many bits and pieces of Sosa's work are already well known to everyone working in epistemology, they are known primarily through various papers that Sosa has written, and it is not generally well understood just how the views put forward in those many papers fit together to form a coherent and explanatorily
powerful epistemology. Reading this book helps one to understand that.'
Ram Neta, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Long-awaited first monograph from one of the world's most eminent and widely admired philosophers
Fresh approach to some of the most famous problems in philosophy
Lively, accessible style
Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Long-awaited first monograph from one of the world's most eminent and widely admired philosophers
Fresh approach to some of the most famous problems in philosophy
Lively, accessible style
Product details
ISBN
9780199568208
Published
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
220 gr
Height
215 mm
Width
134 mm
Thickness
9 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author