Epistemic Agency, Volume 23 - Epistemic Agency

This book collects cutting edge essays on epistemic agency and related topics by distinguished senior contributors to epistemology, as well as rising figures in the field. The assembly of scholars is impressive, as is reflected by the quality and range of their contributions.

List of contents

1. Knowledge and Action Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Human Agency ERNEST SOSA 1 Skeptical Challenges and Knowing Action STEPHEN HETHERINGTON 18 Fallibilism, Epistemic Possibility, and Epistemic Agency BARON REED 40 2. Agency and Responsibility Rational 'Ought' Implies 'Can' RALPH WEDGWOOD 70 Obsessive Thoughts and Inner Voices LUCY O'BRIEN 93 The Possibility of Epistemic Responsibility MIGUEL'ANGEL FERNANDEZ 109 Epistemic Responsibility and Doxastic Agency CONOR MCHUGH 132 Is Epistemic Agency Possible? PASCAL ENGEL 158 Epistemic Agency: Some Doubts KIERAN SETIYA 179 Can Virtue Epistemology Capitalize on JTB's Appeal? E. J. COFFMAN 199 3. Intellectual Virtues In Defense of Reflection VALERIE TIBERIUS 223 Intellectual Autonomy LINDA ZAGZEBSKI 244 A Neo-Stoic Approach to Epistemic Agency SARAH WRIGHT 262 Why We Cannot Rely On Ourselves for Epistemic Improvement KRISTOFFER AHLSTROM-VIJ 276 4. Reasoning and Epistemic Norms Scope for Rational Autonomy MARK SCHROEDER 297 Why We Reason the Way We Do NISHI SHAH 311 Cognitive Diversity and Epistemic Norms JESSICA BROWN 326 Epistemic Commitments, Epistemic Agency and Practical Reasons MICHAEL P. LYNCH 343 The Rejection of Epistemic Consequentialism SELIM BERKER 363 What Is an Inference? RAM NETA 388 Errata 408

Summary

This book collects cutting edge essays on epistemic agency and related topics by distinguished senior contributors to epistemology, as well as rising figures in the field. The assembly of scholars is impressive, as is reflected by the quality and range of their contributions.

Product details

• Authors: Baron Reed, Sosa, E Sosa, Ernest Sosa, Ernest (Brown University) Villanueva Sosa, Ernest Villanueva Sosa, Enrique Villanueva
• Assisted by: Baron Reed (Editor), Reed Baron (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor), Ernest (Brown University) Sosa (Editor), Sosa Ernest (Editor), Enrique Villanueva (Editor), Enrique (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) Villanueva (Editor), Villanueva Enrique (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2014
• EAN: 9781118825761
• ISBN: 978-1-118-82576-1
• No. of pages: 409
• Series: Philosophical Issues (Wiley-Bl; Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge