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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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
De Rose (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
Circa l’autore
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.