Knowing Full Well

Name: Knowing Full Well
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ISBN: 9780691143972

ISBN-10: 0691143978

ISBN-13: 9780691143972

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ernest Sosa, Chienkuo Mi

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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 ways, by applying it to issues much…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.83" wide x 8.74" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Knowing Full Well



Epistemic Agency



Value Matters in Epistemology



Three Views of Human Knowledge



Contextualism



Propositional Experience



Knowledge: Instrumental and Testimonial



Epistemic Circularity


Summing Up


Index