Overview
- 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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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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa
Editors: John Turri
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5934-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5933-6Published: 19 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8056-8Published: 07 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5934-3Published: 14 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0921-8599
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 230
Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Ontology, Ethics, Philosophy of Language