Reflective Knowledge: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume Ii

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2009)
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Abstract

Reflective Knowledge draws together ground-breaking work in epistemology by Ernest Sosa. He argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on virtuous circularity, shows how this idea may be found explicitly or just below the surface in such illustrious predecessors as Descartes and Moore, and defends the view against its rivals.

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Epistemology Naturalized, Davidson's Way

This chapter examines Donald Davidson's distinctive form of epistemology naturalized. Before presenting his own account, Davidson rejects received views of meaning and knowledge. What follows will combine themes from his critique of alternatives with his more positive account and its way w... see more

Human Knowledge, Animal and Reflective

This chapter discusses the two varieties of human knowledge: the animal and the reflective. Animal knowledge does not require that the knower have an epistemic perspective on his belief, a perspective from which he endorses the source of that belief, from which he can see that source as re... see more

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Ernest Sosa
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Knowledge How.Jeremy Fantl - 2012 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Metaepistemology.J. Adam Carter & Ernest Sosa - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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