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.
Table of Content
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
About the author
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.
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