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Knowing Full Well
Ernest Sosa
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Description for Knowing Full Well
Hardback. Explaining the nature of knowledge, this book presents an account of the author's views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. It shows how experience should be understood if it is to figure in the epistemic competence that must be manifest in the truth of any belief apt enough to constitute knowledge. Series: Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology. Here he provides the first comprehensive account of his views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. On a first level is found the normativity of the apt performance, whose success manifests the performer's competence. On a higher level is found the normativity of the meta-apt performance, which manifests not necessarily first-order skill or competence but rather the reflective good judgment required for proper risk assessment. Sosa develops this bi-level account in multiple ... Read more
In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology. Here he provides the first comprehensive account of his views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. On a first level is found the normativity of the apt performance, whose success manifests the performer's competence. On a higher level is found the normativity of the meta-apt performance, which manifests not necessarily first-order skill or competence but rather the reflective good judgment required for proper risk assessment. Sosa develops this bi-level account in multiple ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691143972
SKU
V9780691143972
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About Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa is the Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
Reviews for Knowing Full Well
"[T]his book ... develops further the ideas about grades of knowledge for which [Sosa] is known. It is interesting, novel, often convincing, and extraordinarily clearly written. I admire it."
Adam Morton, Philosophy Reviews "A leading figure in epistemology for three decades, Sosa's reputation in this field could not rise any higher. This new work condenses his overall views on the traditional ... Read more
Adam Morton, Philosophy Reviews "A leading figure in epistemology for three decades, Sosa's reputation in this field could not rise any higher. This new work condenses his overall views on the traditional ... Read more