Virtue epistemology [[electronic resource] ] : motivation and knowledge / / Stephen Napier

• Autore: Napier Stephen E
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Virtue epistemology; Knowledge, Theory of
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-172) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Competing conceptions of a cognitive virtue -- A virtue account of perception -- A virtue account of memory -- Testimony and cognitive virtue -- Moral expertise : the role of cognitive virtues in generating knowledge -- Cognitive virtue, divine hiddenness, and reasonable belief or nonbelief.
• Sommario/riassunto: Contemporary epistemology debates have largely been occupied with formulating a definition of knowledge that is immune to any counterexample. To date, no definition has been able to escape unscathed. Moving away from debates about definitions, Virtue Epistemology shows what conditions are essential for knowledge and applies this account to different domains. It proposes that agents must be motivated correctly to acquire knowledge, even in the case of perception. Stephen Napier examines closely the empirical research in cognitive science and moral psychology to build an account of knowledge whe
• Titolo autorizzato: Virtue epistemology
• ISBN: 1-282-87533-7; 9786612875335; 1-4411-6053-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458919503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum studies in philosophy.