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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 emphasizes the role of the social in human knowledge.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Virtue Epistemology Extended and Unified
- 1: The Unity of Action, Perception, and Knowledge
- 2: Virtue Epistemology: Character versus Competence
- Part II: A Better Virtue Epistemology
- 3: Judgment and Agency
- 4: A Better Virtue Epistemology Further Developed
- 5: Objections and Replies, with a Methodological Afterthought
- Part III: Knowledge and Agency
- 6: Knowledge and Action
- 7: Intentional Action and Judgment
- 8: Social Roots of Human Knowledge
- 9: Epistemic Agency
- Part IV: Historical Antecedents
- 10: Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Human Agency
- 11: Descartes' Pyrrhonian Virtue Epistemology
About the author
Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
Summary
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. Questions about skepticism and the nature of knowledge are at the forefront. The answers defended are new in their explicit and sustained focus on judgment and epistemic agency. While noting that human knowledge trades on distinctive psychological capacities, Sosa also emphasizes the role of the social in human knowledge. Basic animal knowledge is supplemented by a level of reflective knowledge focused on judgment, and a level of 'knowing full well' that is distinctive of the animal that is rational.
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[Sosa] has written a book that no serious epistemologist can ignore, and in so doing has provided further evidencethat current discussions in virtue epistemology would not be at the high level of sophistication they currently are if not for his contributions. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
