Abrol Fairweather, Carlos Montemayor

Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781107089822
• ISBN-10: 1107089824
• Artikelnr.: 47720942

Autorenporträt

Abrol Fairweather is Lecturer in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has edited several volumes on virtue epistemology, including Virtue Epistemology (with Linda Zagzebski, 2001), Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue (with Own Flanagan, 2014), and Epistemic Situationism (with Mark Alfano, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

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.