Epistemic Explanations: A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains 1st Edition Ernest Sosa

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198856466
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198856467
• Author(s): Ernest Sosa

Epistemic Explanations develops an improved virtue epistemology and uses it to explain several epistemic phenomena. Part I lays out a telic virtue epistemology that accommodates varieties of knowledge and understanding particularly pertinent to the humanities. Part II develops an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by relating it to degrees of confidence and to inquiry. Part III develops a substantially improved telic virtue epistemology by appeal to default assumptions important in domains of human performance generally, and in our intellectual lives as a special case. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now seems a first approximation. This part also introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories and defends in particular a category of secure knowledge.

Table contents:

Part I. Insight and Understanding, and Two Sides of Epistemology
1. Insight and Understanding
2. Gnoseology and Intellectual Ethics
Part II. The Nature and Varieties of Suspension
3. The Place of Suspension and Problems for Evidentialism
4. Suspension, Confidence, and Inquiry
5. When and How Is Suspension Apt?
6. More on Suspension: Its Varieties and How It Relates to Being in a Position to Know
Part III. The Telic Nature of Knowledge, and Some Main Varieties
7. Knowledge, Default, and Skepticism
8. Grades of Knowledge
9. Reflection and Security
10. Competence and Justification
Part IV. A Historical Antecedent
11. The Relevance of Moore and Wittgenstein
Bibliography
Index

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