Judgment and agency / Ernest Sosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sosa, Ernest, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judgment.

Agent (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 269 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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. While noting that human knowledge trades on distinctive psychological capacities, Sosa also emphasises the role of the social in human knowledge.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 24, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-178876-7

OCLC:

908153591