A Virtue Epistemology: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume 1

by Ernest Sosa

Book Overview

A Virtue Epistemology presents a new approach to some of the oldest and most gripping problems of philosophy, those of knowledge and skepticism. Ernest Sosa argues for two levels of knowledge, the animal and the reflective, each viewed as a distinctive human accomplishment. By adopting a kind of virtue epistemology in line with the tradition found in Aristotle, Aquinas, Reid, and especially Descartes, he presents an account of knowledge which can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199568200
• ISBN13: 9780199568208
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.6"