Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency

ISBN-13: 9781107089822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 204 str.

Abrol Fairweather; Carlos Montemayor

Opis

This title provides the first thorough defense of a naturalized virtue epistemology.

Recenzje

'This is an excellent book … The reader gets a balanced, critical account of how virtue epistemology stands today. The argumentation is judicious and insightful. I learned a great deal from it, and so, I think, will anybody who reads it.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Spis treści

Introduction: why only agents are knowers; 1. Epistemic virtue, reliable attention and cognitive constitution; 2. Meta-epistemology and epistemic agency; 3. Success semantics and the etiology of success; 4. Epistemic agency; 5. Assertion as epistemic motivation; 6. Curiosity and epistemic achievement; 7. Collective agency, assertion and information.