Ernest Sosa And His Critics

This is the first book devoted to the work of Ernest Sosa, one of the most influential contemporary epistemologists. Part of the acclaimed Philosophers and Their Critics series. The editor's introduction serves as an introduction to Sosa's epistemology. Contains critical essays by more than twenty of the most prominent epistemologists in the world, commenting on Sosa's work. Concludes with Sosa's own reply to his critics.

John Greco is Associate Professor at Fordham University. He is the author of Putting Skeptics in Their Place (2000) and co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999). He has published numerous journal articles in the field of epistemology.

Notes on Contributors

viii

Cited Works by Ernest Sosa

x

Preface

xii

Introduction: Motivations for Sosa's Epistemology

xv

Part I Critical Essays: Epistemology

1

(198)

1 Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Power

3

(14)

ROBERT AUDI

2 Structure and Connection: Comments on Sosa's Epistemology

17

(5)

STEWART COHEN

3 Sosa, Safety, Sensitivity, and Skeptical Hypotheses

22

(20)

KEITH DEROSE

4 Foundational Justification

42

(17)

RICHARD FELDMAN

5 A Trial Separation between the Theory of Knowledge and the Theory of Justified Belief

59

(13)

RICHARD FOLEY

6 Achieving Epistemic Ascent

72

(14)

RICHARD FUMERTON

7 Sosa on Reflective Knowledge and Virtue Perspectivism

86

(10)

ALVIN GOLDMAN

8 How to Preserve Your Virtue while Losing Your Perspective

96

(10)

JOHN GRECO

9 Sosa on Circularity and Coherence

106

(6)

ALLEN HABIB AND KEITH LEHRER

10 Skepticism: Ascent and Assent?

112

(14)

PETER KLEIN

11 Sosa on Human and Animal Knowledge

126

(9)

HILARY KORNBLITH

12 Skepticism Undone?

135

(10)

PAUL MOSER

13 Sosa and Epistemic Justification

145

(20)

NICHOLAS RESCHER

14 Perceptual Knowledge and Epistemological Satisfaction

165

(9)

BARRY STROUD

15 Mythology of the Given: Sosa, Sellars, and the Task of Epistemology

174

(16)

MICHAEL WILLIAMS

16 Epistemic Value Monism

190

(9)

LINDA ZAGZEBSKI

Part II Critical Essays: Metaphysics

199

(74)

17 Sosa on Realism

201

(14)

WILLIAM P. ALSTON

18 Reference and Subjectivity

215

(9)

BILL BREWER

19 Sosa's Existential Relativism

224

(9)

ELI HIRSCH

20 Sosa on Internal Realism and Conceptual Relativity

233

(16)

HILARY PUTNAM

21 On What There Is Now: Sosa on Two Forms of Relativity

249

(14)

JAMES VAN CLEVE

22 Sosa on Abilities, Concepts, and Externalism

263

(10)

TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON

Part III Replies

273

(54)

23 Replies

275

(52)

ERNEST SOSA

Index

327

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