Epistemic Explanations: A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What It Explains

by Ernest Sosa

Epistemic Explanations develops an improved virtue epistemology and uses it to explain several epistemic phenomena. Part I lays out a telic virtue epistemology that accommodates varieties of knowledge and understanding particularly pertinent to the humanities. Part II develops an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by relating it to degrees of confidence and to inquiry. Part III develops a substantially improved telic virtue epistemology by appeal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198856466
• ISBN13: 9780198856467
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"