Virtue epistemology [[electronic resource] ] : essays on epistemic virtue and responsibility / / edited by Abrol Fairweather & Linda Zagzebski

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Virtue epistemology; Ethics
• Altri autori: FairweatherAbrol ZagzebskiLinda Trinkaus <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Reason, Virtue, and Knowledge; 3 The Unity of the Epistemic Virtues; 4 For the Love of Truth?; 5 Epistemic Motivation; 6 Epistemic Virtue and Justified Belief; 7 Thin Concepts to the Rescue: Thinning the Concepts of Epistemic Justification and Intellectual Virtue; 8 Virtues and Rules in Epistemology; 9 Must Knowers Be Agents?; 10 Epistemic Luck in Light of the Virtues; 11 Epistemic Akrasia and Epistemic Virtue; 12 The Virtue of Knowledge; 13 The Foundational Role of Epistemology in a General Theory of Rationality ; 14 Epistemic Obligation and the Possibility of InternalismIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: American and British philosophers have broken new ground in exploring how the nature of knowledge can be normative. Virtue Epistemology is a new movement receiving the bulk of attention from top epistemologists and ethicists; this volume reflects the best work in that vein.
• Titolo autorizzato: Virtue epistemology
• ISBN: 0-19-773193-7; 1-280-48150-1; 0-19-534389-1; 1-4237-6215-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777036803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II