- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; First Edition edition (8 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199217254
- ISBN-13: 978-0199217250
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,384,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sosa's i Reflective Knowledge r reliably provides the focused, tightly reasoned treatment of his subject that readers have come to expect of this pre-eminent contemporary philosopher. Read this book for a learned and rewarding treatment of the problem of scepticism, and of the course of epistemology from Descartes' time to the present. (Guy Axtell. Philosophical Quarterly )
a magnificent book (Heather Battaly, Analysis Reviews )
anyone reading this rich and important book will emerge with a refreshed view of how the history of epistemology relates to the cutting edge. (Bruce Hunter & Adam Morton, Mind )
It should go without saying that Sosa's book is essential reading for anyone with even a passing interest in contemporary epistemology. His distinction between animal and reflective knowledge is a fundamental contribution to the field. The approach he sketches in this readable book is important and defensible. I know of no more plausible approach, no more accessible presentation. (Frederick F. Schmitt, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews )
a magnificent book (Heather Battaly, Analysis Reviews )
anyone reading this rich and important book will emerge with a refreshed view of how the history of epistemology relates to the cutting edge. (Bruce Hunter & Adam Morton, Mind )
It should go without saying that Sosa's book is essential reading for anyone with even a passing interest in contemporary epistemology. His distinction between animal and reflective knowledge is a fundamental contribution to the field. The approach he sketches in this readable book is important and defensible. I know of no more plausible approach, no more accessible presentation. (Frederick F. Schmitt, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews )
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Reflective Knowledge argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on a kind of virtuous circularity that may be found explicitly or just below the surface in the epistemological writings of Descartes, Moore, and now Davidson, who on Sosa's reading also relies crucially on an assumption of virtuous circularity. Along the way various lines of objection are explored. In Part I Sosa considers historical alternatives to the view developed in Part II. He begins with G.E. Moore's legendary proof, and the epistemology that lies behind it. That leads to classical foundationalism, a more general position encompassing the indirect realism advocated by Moore. Next he turns to the quietist naturalism found in David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and P.F. Strawson. After that comes Thomas Reid's commonsense alternative. A quite different option is the subtle and complex epistemology developed by Wilfrid Sellars over the course of a long career. Finally, Part I concludes with a study of Donald Davidson's distinctive form of epistemology naturalized (as Sosa argues). The second part of the book presents an alternative beyond the historical positions of Part I, one that defends a virtue epistemology combined with epistemic circularity. This alternative retains elements of the earlier approaches, while discarding what was found wanting in them.
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