Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa

ISBN-13: 9789401780568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 230 str.

John Turri

Opis

This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa s profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond. A balanced, fair and critical volume, it offers a sensitive appreciation of his wide philosophical purview, a nuanced assessment of the detail of his thought, and a spur to exploring the linkages between the varied topics explored by the subtle mind of this great American scholar.The papers explore a wealth of Sosa s academic interests, including his work on philosophical method, the philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics, and value theory, in addition to his output on epistemology itself. It offers, for example, a rebuttal of the counterarguments to Sosa s reliabilist theory of introspective justification, which itself concludes with some objections to Sosa s stated views on the speckled hen problem. Other authors track the connections of his virtue theory to his advocacy of bi-level epistemology, provide reflections on Sosa s views on the epistemological tradition, and examine the nexus of his beliefs on intuition and philosophical methodology. This volume is an insightful reckoning of Sosa s academic account."

Spis treści

Preface.- Virtue, Intuition and Philosophical Methodology; Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa.-Objective Value and Requirements; Noah Lemos.- Realism and Relativism; Allan Hazlett.- The Metaphysics of Persons; Gary Rosenkrantz.- Self-Conception: Sosa on De Se Thought;  Manuel García-Carpintero.- Introspective Justification and the Fineness of Grain of Experience: Sosa on Specked Hens; Michael Pace.-Truth and Epistemology; Matt McGrath and Jeremy Fantl.- Bi-Level Virtue Epistemology; John Turri.- Safety and Epistemic Frankfurt Cases; Juan Comesaña.-  Reflective Knowledge and the Pyrrhonian Problematic; John Greco.- The Virtues of Testimony; Jennifer Lackey.- Historical Reflections: Sosa’s Perspective on the Epistemological Tradition; Baron Reed.- Appendix.