Overview
- Presents the work of one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers
- Contains Sosa's original Münster Lecture on his most recent work
- Presents critical papers and original responses from Sosa
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Münster Lectures in Philosophy (MUELP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa’s latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years. Ernest Sosa, one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers, is best known for his ground-breaking work in epistemology, and has also contributed greatly to metaphysics, metaphilosophy and philosophy of language.
This book, resulting from the 18th Münster Lectures in Philosophy, includes an original article by Sosa on his most recent work in epistemology, and seven critical papers that target a wide range of topics from Sosa’s oeuvre, as well as Sosa’s responses. As regards his epistemology, the issues discussed include his solution of the sceptical problem in his most recent work and the question of how to integrate a sensible account of testimony to Sosa’s virtue epistemology.
The selected topics from his other fields of inquiry include his view on empirical challenges to human rationality, his defense of the scientific status of philosophy, his concept of causality as considered against the background of the current debate, his suggestion of a middle-way between existential relativism and absolutism and his externalistic internalism in the philosophy of mind and language.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Markus Seidel is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Münster, Germany. His research focuses on general philosophy of science and epistemology. Besides several articles in these areas he is the author of the book Epistemic Relativism. A Constructive Critique (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Amrei Bahr is a researcher and a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Münster. Her main field of study is the philosophy of artifacts, with special focus on artifact copies and artifact functions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ernest Sosa
Book Subtitle: Targeting His Philosophy
Editors: Amrei Bahr, Markus Seidel
Series Title: Münster Lectures in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32519-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32517-0Published: 12 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81306-6Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32519-4Published: 01 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2367-0991
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 146
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science