Judgment and agency /

• Main Author: Sosa, Ernest (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Edition: First edition.
• Subjects: Κρίση > Φιλοσοφία; Υποκείμενο (Φιλοσοφία); Γνώση, Θεωρία της

"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 expli...

Table of 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.