Epistemology / Ernest Sosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sosa, Ernest, author.

Series:

Princeton foundations of contemporary philosophy.

Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Epistemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this concise book, one of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and contemporary accounts of epistemology tend to focus on limited questions of knowledge and skepticism, such as how we can know the external world, other minds, the past through memory, the future through induction, or the world's depth and structure through inference. This book steps back for a better view of the more general issues posed by the ancient Greek Pyrrhonists. Returning to and illuminating this older, broader epistemological tradition, Ernest Sosa develops an original account of the subject, giving it substance not with Cartesian theology but with science and common sense. Descartes is a part of this ancient tradition, but he goes beyond it by considering not just whether knowledge is possible at all but also how we can properly attain it. In Cartesian epistemology, Sosa finds a virtue-theoretic account, one that he extends beyond the Cartesian context. Once epistemology is viewed in this light, many of its problems can be solved or fall away.The result is an important reevaluation of epistemology that will be essential reading for students and teachers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface for Readers and Instructors

Acknowledgments

Chapter one. Descartes's Pyrrhonian Virtue Epistemology

Chapter two. Dream Skepticism

Chapter three. Regress Skepticism

Chapter four. Knowledge: What It Is and How We Might Have It

Chapter Five. Knowledge as Action

Chapter six. Varieties and Levels of Knowledge

Chapter seven. The Value of Human Knowledge

Chapter eight. Mind-World Relations

Chapter nine. Two Forms of Virtue Epistemology

Chapter ten. Knowledge, Time, and Negligence

Chapter eleven. Virtue Theory against Situationism

Chapter twelve. Virtue Epistemology and a Theory of Competence

Chapter thirteen. Knowledge and Justification

Further Reading Related to This Book

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400883059

1400883059

OCLC:

1080548986