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Epistemic Explanations A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains

Sosa, Ernest
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198901006
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
316 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
137 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Sosa, Ernest

Biografisk notat

Born in Cuba, Ernest Sosa immigrated to the USA as a teenager. After his BA from the University of Miami, and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, he has taught at Brown University and then at Rutgers, each for decades. During that time he has had numerous dissertation students who have attained distinction. He was a President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1980 he inaugurated the virtue theoretic approach in epistemology, which he has developed through a half dozen books, many published articles, and replies in many author/critic sessions and books. He has given several distinguished lectures, including the Locke and the Carus Lectures, and has received several prizes. The APA has established a prize lectureship and a fellowship in his honor for excellence in epistemology.

Epistemic Explanations A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains

Sosa, Ernest
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Sosa, Ernest
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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Expectations created by Sosa's previous work will be extremely high, but the book does not disappoint—Sosa's discussion is masterful. The book is full of ingenious arguments and acute insights that will occupy epistemologists for years to come.... Sosa has once again succeeded in changing the terms of contemporary epistemology, while at the same time raising the bar on quality and depth of insight.

John Greco, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

No one has done more for analytic virtue epistemology than Ernie Sosa; indeed, one is tempted to delete 'virtue'. This is his latest development of his teleological version of the virtue-theoretic perspective. It is characteristically excellent and will no doubt be a classic contribution to epistemology. I highly recommend it.

Errol Lord, Mind

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.
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Epistemic Explanations is an important book by the world's most eminent epistemologist. Sosa develops an improved virtue epistemology and uses it to explain several epistemic phenomena.
Part I: Insight and Understanding, and Two Sides of Epistemology 1: Insight and Understanding 2: Gnoseology and Intellectual Ethics Part II: The Nature and Varieties of Suspension 3: The Place of Suspension and Problems for Evidentialism 4: Suspension, Confidence, and Inquiry 5: When and How is Suspension Apt? 6: More on Suspension: Its Varieties and How It Relates to Being in a Position to Know Part III: The Telic Nature of Knowledge, and Some Main Varieties 7: Knowledge, Default, and Skepticism 8: Grades of Knowledge 9: Reflection and Security 10: Competence and Justification Part IV: A Historical Antecedent 11: The Relevance of Moore and Wittgenstein
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Born in Cuba, Ernest Sosa immigrated to the USA as a teenager. After his BA from the University of Miami, and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, he has taught at Brown University and then at Rutgers, each for decades. During that time he has had numerous dissertation students who have attained distinction. He was a President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1980 he inaugurated the virtue theoretic approach in epistemology, which he has developed through a half dozen books, many published articles, and replies in many author/critic sessions and books. He has given several distinguished lectures, including the Locke and the Carus Lectures, and has received several prizes. The APA has established a prize lectureship and a fellowship in his honor for excellence in epistemology.
Les mer
A new study on virtue epistemology by the doyen of epistemology Substantially extends Sosa's virtue epistemology Covers a range of topics not previously addressed in Sosa's work

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Expectations created by Sosa's previous work will be extremely high, but the book does not disappoint—Sosa's discussion is masterful. The book is full of ingenious arguments and acute insights that will occupy epistemologists for years to come.... Sosa has once again succeeded in changing the terms of contemporary epistemology, while at the same time raising the bar on quality and depth of insight.

John Greco, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

No one has done more for analytic virtue epistemology than Ernie Sosa; indeed, one is tempted to delete 'virtue'. This is his latest development of his teleological version of the virtue-theoretic perspective. It is characteristically excellent and will no doubt be a classic contribution to epistemology. I highly recommend it.

Errol Lord, Mind

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.
Les mer
Epistemic Explanations is an important book by the world's most eminent epistemologist. Sosa develops an improved virtue epistemology and uses it to explain several epistemic phenomena.
Part I: Insight and Understanding, and Two Sides of Epistemology 1: Insight and Understanding 2: Gnoseology and Intellectual Ethics Part II: The Nature and Varieties of Suspension 3: The Place of Suspension and Problems for Evidentialism 4: Suspension, Confidence, and Inquiry 5: When and How is Suspension Apt? 6: More on Suspension: Its Varieties and How It Relates to Being in a Position to Know Part III: The Telic Nature of Knowledge, and Some Main Varieties 7: Knowledge, Default, and Skepticism 8: Grades of Knowledge 9: Reflection and Security 10: Competence and Justification Part IV: A Historical Antecedent 11: The Relevance of Moore and Wittgenstein
Les mer
Born in Cuba, Ernest Sosa immigrated to the USA as a teenager. After his BA from the University of Miami, and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, he has taught at Brown University and then at Rutgers, each for decades. During that time he has had numerous dissertation students who have attained distinction. He was a President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1980 he inaugurated the virtue theoretic approach in epistemology, which he has developed through a half dozen books, many published articles, and replies in many author/critic sessions and books. He has given several distinguished lectures, including the Locke and the Carus Lectures, and has received several prizes. The APA has established a prize lectureship and a fellowship in his honor for excellence in epistemology.
Les mer
A new study on virtue epistemology by the doyen of epistemology Substantially extends Sosa's virtue epistemology Covers a range of topics not previously addressed in Sosa's work

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198901006
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
316 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
137 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Sosa, Ernest

Biografisk notat

Born in Cuba, Ernest Sosa immigrated to the USA as a teenager. After his BA from the University of Miami, and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, he has taught at Brown University and then at Rutgers, each for decades. During that time he has had numerous dissertation students who have attained distinction. He was a President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1980 he inaugurated the virtue theoretic approach in epistemology, which he has developed through a half dozen books, many published articles, and replies in many author/critic sessions and books. He has given several distinguished lectures, including the Locke and the Carus Lectures, and has received several prizes. The APA has established a prize lectureship and a fellowship in his honor for excellence in epistemology.

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