Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention - A Theory of Epistemic Agency

Informationen zum Autor Abrol Fairweather is Lecturer in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has edited several volumes on virtue epistemology, including Virtue Epistemology (with Linda Zagzebski, 2001), Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue (with Own Flanagan, 2014), and Epistemic Situationism (with Mark Alfano, 2017). Carlos Montemayor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (2013) and Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention (with H. H. Haladjian, 2015). Klappentext This title provides the first thorough defense of a naturalized virtue epistemology. Zusammenfassung In this book! Abrol Fairweather and Carlos Montemayor develop and defend a theory of epistemic achievements that requires the manifestation of cognitive agency. The resulting study is the first sustained! naturalized virtue epistemology! and will be of interest to readers in epistemology! cognitive science! and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: why only agents are knowers; 1. Epistemic virtue, reliable attention and cognitive constitution; 2. Meta-epistemology and epistemic agency; 3. Success semantics and the etiology of success; 4. Epistemic agency; 5. Assertion as epistemic motivation; 6. Curiosity and epistemic achievement; 7. Collective agency, assertion and information.

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• Authors: Abrol Fairweather, Abrol (San Francisco State University Fairweather, Abrol Montemayor Fairweather, Fairweather Abrol, Carlos Montemayor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2017
• EAN: 9781107089822
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08982-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Cognitivism, cognitive theory