Judgment and agency / Ernest Sosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sosa, Ernest.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judgment.

Agent (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

vi, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Ernest Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with issues of epistemic evaluation. Questions about skepticism and the nature of knowledge are at the forefront. The answers defended are new in their explicit and sustained focus on judgment and epistemic agency. While noting that human knowledge trades on distinctive psychological capacities, Sosa also emphasizes the role of the social in human knowledge. Basic animal knowledge is supplemented by a level of reflective knowledge focused on judgment, and a level of 'knowing full well' that is distinctive of the animal that is rational.--Provided by publisher

Contents:

Part I. Virtue epistemology extended and unified

The unity of action, perception, and knowledge

Virtue epistemology: character versus competence

Part II. A better virtue epistemology

Judgment and agency

A better virtue epistemology further developed

Objections and replies, with a methodological afterthought

Part III. Knowledge and agency

Knowledge and action

Intentional action and judgment

Social roots of human knowledge

Epistemic agency

Part IV. Main historical antecedents

Pyrrhonian skepticism and human agency

Descartes's Pyrrhonian virtue epistemology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198719694

0198719698

OCLC:

893455414