GRECO JOHN

Ernest Sosa

And His Critics
Herausgeber: Greco, John

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 171mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780631217985
• ISBN-10: 0631217983
• Artikelnr.: 22121574

Autorenporträt

John Greco is Associate Professor at Fordham University. He is the author of Putting Skeptics in Their Place (2000) and co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999). He has published numerous journal articles in the field of epistemology.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.
Cited Works by Ernest Sosa.
Preface.
Introduction: Motivations for Sosa's Epistemology: John Greco (Fordham
University).
CRITICAL ESSAYS.
Epistemology.
1. Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Power: Robert Audi (University of
Notre Dame).
2. Structure and Connection: Comments on Ernest Sosa's Epistemology:
Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University).
3. Sosa, Safety, Sensitivity, and Skeptical Hypotheses: Keith DeRose (Yale
University).
4. Foundational Justification: Richard Feldman (University of Rochester).
5. A Trial Separation Between the Theory of Knowledge and the Theory of
Justified Belief: Richard Foley (New York University).
6. Achieving Epistemic Ascent: Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa).
7. Sosa on Reflective Knowledge and Virtue Perspectivism: Alvin Goldman
(Rutgers University).
8. How to Preserve Your Virtue while Losing Your Perspective: John Greco
(Fordham University).
9. Sosa on Circularity and Coherence: Allen Habib and Keith Lehrer (both
University of Arizona).
10. Skepticism: Ascent and Assent?: Peter Klein (Rutgers University).
11. Sosa on Animal and Human Knowledge: Hilary Kornblith (University of
Massachuessetts, Amherst).
12. Skepticism Undone?: Paul Moser (Loyola University, Chicago).
13. Sosa and Epistemic Justification: Nicholas Rescher (University of
Pittsburgh).
14. Perceptual Knowledge and Epistemological Satisfaction: Barry Stroud
(University of California, Berkeley).
15. Mythology of the Given: Sosa, Sellars and the Task of Epistemology:
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University).
16. Epistemic Value Monism: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma).
Metaphysics.
17. Sosa on Realism: William P. Alston (Syracuse University).
18. Reference and Subjectivity: Bill Brewer (Oxford University).
19. Sosa's Existential Relativism: Eli Hirsch (Brandeis University).
20. Sosa on Internal Realism and Conceptual Relativity: Hilary Putnam
(Harvard University).
21. On What There is Now: Sosa on Two forms of Relativity: James Van Cleve
(Brown University).
22. Sosa on Abilities, Concepts and Externalism: Timothy Williamson (Oxford
University).
REPLIES.
Replies: Ernest Sosa (Brown University).
Index

Rezensionen

"Anyone interested in developments in epistemology over the past 50years cannot ignore Sosa's work, and the discussions heremake possible a fuller appreciation and understanding ofSosa's achievements and place in recent epistemology."Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"This is an excellent collection of essays. It illuminatesnot only Sosa's philosophical work, but also a large part ofcontemporary epistemology."

Anil Gupta, University ofPittsburgh

"In conclusion, it seems that Sosa's virtue epistemology offersa promising line in solving some perennial problems. It overcomessome important deficiences of its predecessors, and at the sametime integrates some advantages of the old paradigms." MarinaBakalova, Central European University