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Sosa, Ernest was born on June 17, 1940 in Cardenas, Cuba. Son of Ernesto and Maria (Garriga) Sosa.
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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 be used to shed light on different varieties of skepticism, the nature and status of intuitions, and epistemic normativity.
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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 be used to shed light on different varieties of skepticism, the nature and status of intuitions, and epistemic normativity.
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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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Reflective Knowledge draws together ground-breaking work in epistemology by Ernest Sosa. He argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on virtuous circularity, shows how this idea may be found explicitly or just below the surface in such illustrious predecessors as Descartes and Moore, and defends the view against its rivals.
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Reflective Knowledge draws together ground-breaking work in epistemology by Ernest Sosa. He argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on virtuous circularity, shows how this idea may be found explicitly or just below the surface in such illustrious predecessors as Descartes and Moore, and defends the view against its rivals.
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Sosa, Ernest was born on June 17, 1940 in Cardenas, Cuba. Son of Ernesto and Maria (Garriga) Sosa.
BA, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. PhD. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. tnfts: Roderick Chisholm and a host of historical figures: Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Frege, Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein.
Instructor University Western Ontario, London, Canada, 1963-1964, assistant professor Canada, 1966-1967. Instructor University Pittsburgh, 1964. Postdoctoral fellow Brown University, Providence, 1964-1966, assistant professor to full professor, 1967-1974, chairman of philosophy, 1970-1976, full professor, since 1974, Romeo Elton professor, 1981—2007.
Professor Rutgers University, 2007—2008, board Governors professor, 2008. Visiting professor University Miami, 1970, National University Mexico, 1979, 80, 81, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, University Salamanca, 1995, 98, Oxford University, 1997. Distinguished visiting professor Rutgers University, 1998-2007.
John Locke lecturer Oxford U, 2005. Co-chair program committee 20th World Congress of Philosophy, 1998.
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Author: Knowledge in Perspective, 1991, A Virtue Epistemology, 2007, Reflective Knowledge, 2009. General editor book series, Cambridge University Press, 1990—2002, Blackwell Publishers, since 1991. Editor Philosophy and Phenomenol.Research. Editor: Nous. Contributor numerous articles to professional journals.
Sosa’s writings in epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind have been widely influential among analytical philosophers. He is perhaps best known for advancing ‘virtue perspectivism’, a doctrine with roots in coherentist and foundationalist epistemological traditions usually assumed to be at odds. According to Sosa, whether a belief constitutes reflective knowledge depends not merely on how it was produced—its foundational ancestry—but also on the believer’s perspective on his own circumstances as knower.
To accommodate the apparent capacity of nonreflective agents for knowledge, Sosa distinguishes ‘animal’ and ‘reflective’ knowledge in a way analogous to Descartes’s distinction between cognitionem and scientia. Only reflective knowledge depends straightforwardly on the believer’s perspective. In either case, however, only beliefs produced by truth-conducive intellectual virtues are candidates for knowledge.
In other writings, Sosa has defended a modified Fregean position according to which a thinker’s reference to an object is always mediated by sense, although sense can be either Fregean and absolute or quasi-Fregean and perspectival.
In the latter case, reference is determined only with the aid of context. Such a conception forgoes the need to postulate any special de re relation between thinkers and the objects of their thoughts, explaining away considerations adduced in behalf of such a special relation within the confines of the modified Fregean position.
Sosa’s views on personal identity reflect a broadly Aristotelian conception of persons, a conception he has undertaken to defend against the charge that it implies that one’s survival cannot matter rationally even to oneself. In recent years Sosa has published articles defending objectivity, 'modest realism' and the reality of knowledge against the ascendant scepticism, relativism and anti-realism of our times.
He has been active internationally, a frequent speaker at conferences and a plenary speaker at international congresses.
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Association (secretary-treasurer 1974-1982, chair international cooperative committee 1984-1989, eastern division representative 1995-1998, president eastern division 2004-2005, vice president eastern division 2003-2004 board chair 2005^, Carus lecturer 2010), American Council Learned Socs./Soviet Academy Commission, International Federation Philosophical Society (steering committee 1988-1998, vice president 1988-1993), Institut International de Philosophie (executive committee 1993-1996).
Married Sara Mercedes, December 21, 1961. Children: E. David, Adrian J.