Ernest Sosa and His Critics

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-631-21799-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

This is the first book devoted to the work of Ernest Sosa, one of the most influential contemporary epistemologists.
- Part of the acclaimed Philosophers and Their Critics series.
- The editor's introduction serves as an introduction to Sosa's epistemology.
- Contains critical essays by more than twenty of the most prominent epistemologists in the world, commenting on Sosa's work.
- Concludes with Sosa's own reply to his critics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greco, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.

Cited Works by Ernest Sosa.

Preface.

Introduction: Motivations for Sosa’s Epistemology: John Greco (Fordham University).

CRITICAL ESSAYS.

Epistemology.

1. Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Power: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame).

2. Structure and Connection: Comments on Ernest Sosa’s Epistemology: Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University).

3. Sosa, Safety, Sensitivity, and Skeptical Hypotheses: Keith DeRose (Yale University).

4. Foundational Justification: Richard Feldman (University of Rochester).

5. A Trial Separation Between the Theory of Knowledge and the Theory of Justified Belief: Richard Foley (New York University).

6. Achieving Epistemic Ascent: Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa).

7. Sosa on Reflective Knowledge and Virtue Perspectivism: Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University).

8. How to Preserve Your Virtue while Losing Your Perspective: John Greco (Fordham University).

9. Sosa on Circularity and Coherence: Allen Habib and Keith Lehrer (both University of Arizona).

10. Skepticism: Ascent and Assent?: Peter Klein (Rutgers University).

11. Sosa on Animal and Human Knowledge: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachuessetts, Amherst).

12. Skepticism Undone?: Paul Moser (Loyola University, Chicago).

13. Sosa and Epistemic Justification: Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh).

14. Perceptual Knowledge and Epistemological Satisfaction: Barry Stroud (University of California, Berkeley).

15. Mythology of the Given: Sosa, Sellars and the Task of Epistemology: Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University).

16. Epistemic Value Monism: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma).

Metaphysics.

17. Sosa on Realism: William P. Alston (Syracuse University).

18. Reference and Subjectivity: Bill Brewer (Oxford University).

19. Sosa's Existential Relativism: Eli Hirsch (Brandeis University).

20. Sosa on Internal Realism and Conceptual Relativity: Hilary Putnam (Harvard University).

21. On What There is Now: Sosa on Two forms of Relativity: James Van Cleve (Brown University).

22. Sosa on Abilities, Concepts and Externalism: Timothy Williamson (Oxford University).

REPLIES.

Replies: Ernest Sosa (Brown University).

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Greco is Associate Professor at Fordham University. He is the author of Putting Skeptics in Their Place (2000) and co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999). He has published numerous journal articles in the field of epistemology.