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Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa

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  • An international team of experts introduces the reader to the thought of a world-renowned contemporary philosopher
  • Evaluates Sosa's views, which have evolved significantly since his Critics volume
  • Apprises the reader of the current state of debate on a host of core philosophical questions
  • Advances the debate on those core questions

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Virtue, Intuition, and Philosophical Methodology

    • Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
    Pages 1-20
  3. Objective Value and Requirements

    • Noah Lemos
    Pages 21-31
  4. Realism and Relativism

    • Allan Hazlett
    Pages 33-53
  5. The Metaphysics of Persons

    • Gary S. Rosenkrantz
    Pages 55-72
  6. Self-Conception: Sosa on De Se Thought

    • Manuel García-Carpintero
    Pages 73-99
  7. Truth and Epistemology

    • Matthew McGrath, Jeremy Fantl
    Pages 127-145
  8. Bi-Level Virtue Epistemology

    • John Turri
    Pages 147-164
  9. Safety and Epistemic Frankfurt Cases

    • Juan Comesaña
    Pages 165-178
  10. The Virtues of Testimony

    • Jennifer Lackey
    Pages 193-204
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-230

About this book

This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa’s profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond. A balanced, fair and critical volume, it offers a sensitive appreciation of his wide philosophical purview, a nuanced assessment of the detail of his thought, and a spur to exploring the linkages between the varied topics explored by the subtle mind of this great American scholar.

The papers explore a wealth of Sosa’s academic interests, including his work on philosophical method, the philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics, and value theory, in addition to his output on epistemology itself. It offers, for example, a rebuttal of the counterarguments to Sosa’s reliabilist theory of introspective justification, which itself concludes with some objections to Sosa’s stated views on the ‘speckled hen’ problem. Other authors track the connections of his virtue theory to his advocacy of bi-level epistemology, provide reflections on Sosa’s views on the epistemological tradition, and examine the nexus of his beliefs on intuition and philosophical methodology. This volume is an insightful reckoning of Sosa’s academic account.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, London, Canada

    John Turri

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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