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Record Nr.

UNINA9910841563203321

Titolo

Ernest Sosa and his critics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Greco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-281-32061-7

9786611320614

0-470-70203-6

0-470-75614-4

0-470-75547-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Philosophers and their critics ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

GrecoJohn

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ERNEST SOSA: AND HIS CRITICS; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Cited Works; Preface; Introduction: Motivations for Sosa's Epistemology; Part I Critical Essays: Epistemology; 1 Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Power; 2 Structure and Connection: Comments on Sosa's Epistemology; 3 Sosa, Safety, Sensitivity, and Skeptical Hypotheses; 4 Foundational Justification; 5 A Trial Separation between the Theory of Knowledge and the Theory of Justified Belief; 6 Achieving Epistemic Ascent; 7 Sosa on Refiective Knowledge and Virtue Perspectivism; 8 How to Preserve Your Virtue while Losing Your Perspective

9 Sosa on Circularity and Coherence10 Skepticism: Ascent and Assent?; 11 Sosa on Human and Animal Knowledge; 12 Skepticism Undone?; 13 Sosa and Epistemic Justification; 14 Perceptual Knowledge and Epistemological Satisfaction; 15 Mythology of the Given: Sosa, Sellars, and the Task of Epistemology; 16 Epistemic Value Monism; Part II Critical Essays: Metaphysics; 17 Sosa on Realism; 18 Reference and Subjectivity; 19 Sosa's Existential Relativism; 20 Sosa on Internal Realism and Conceptual Relativity; 21 On What There Is Now: Sosa on Two Forms of Relativity

22 Sosa on Abilities, Concepts, and ExternalismPart III Replies; 23



Replies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book devoted to the work of Ernest Sosa, one of the most influential contemporary epistemologists. Part of the acclaimed Philosophers and Their Critics series. The editor's introduction serves as an introduction to Sosa's epistemology. Contains critical essays by more than twenty of the most prominent epistemologists in the world, commenting on Sosa's work. Concludes with Sosa's own reply to his critics.