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Epistemic control without voluntarism
Philosophical Issues, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 95-109, October 2023., 2023 Abstract It is tempting to think (though many deny) that epistemic agents exercise a distinctive kind of control over their belief‐like attitudes. My aim here is to sketch a “bottom‐up” model of epistemic agency, one that draws on an analogous model of practical agency, according to which an agent's conditional beliefs are reasons‐responsive planning ...
Timothy R. Kearl
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A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF SOSA’S “TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT” IN KNOWING FULL WELL
Manuscrito, 2020 In a provocative, yet scarcely discussed, argument at the end of Knowing Full Well, Ernest Sosa has attempted to determine what kind of evidence we possess in support of the belief that our cognitive capacities as human beings are reliable.
CLAUDIO CORMIK
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Philosophical Issues, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 140-154, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Abilities, in contrast to mere dispositions, propensities, or tendencies, abilities seem to be features of agents that put the agent herself in control. But what is the distinguishing feature of abilities vis‐à‐vis other kinds of powers? Our aim in this paper is to point, in answer to this question, to a crucial feature of abilities that ...
Erasmus Mayr, Barbara Vetter
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Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Through a qualitative approach, this study identified a specific subgroup of intellectual virtues necessary for developing interdisciplinary research. Cognitive science was initially conceived as a new discipline emerging from various fields, including philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and anthropology.
Claudia E. Vanney +3 more
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Knowing things and going places
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 266-282, March 2023., 2023 Abstract When I say “I know Sarah,” or “I know Berlin,” what sort of knowledge am I claiming? Such knowledge of a particular is, I claim, not reducible to either propositional knowledge‐that or to traditional physical know‐how. Mere, bare knowledge by acquaintance also does not capture the kind of knowledge being claimed here.
Quill R Kukla
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Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism
Trans/Form/Ação, 2022 This article argues for a way out of the swamping problem by showing where his virtue epistemology substantially departs from traditional process reliabilism and how such departure is enough to protect the former from issues that affect the way the ...
Ernest Sosa
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A Virtue-based and Comparative Reading of Ibn Sina and Mula Sadra’s Epistemological Theory [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2020 Virtue-based epistemological theories are a branch of externalist epistemology. These theories introduced by Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski are among these theories.
Akram Askarzadeh Mazraeh
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Aptness and Safety: How Are They Related?
Crítica, 2019 In A Virtue Epistemology, Ernest Sosa defines the notions of safety and aptness of beliefs and uses them to characterize two kinds of knowledge, animal and reflective.
Miguel Ángel Fernández
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Agência epistêmica, naturalismo e normatividade
Perspectiva Filosófica, 2020 O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar um modelo de agência epistêmica que atenda ao projeto normativo da epistemologia, ao mesmo tempo em que satisfaz as intuições naturalistas sobre o funcionamento cognitivo humano.
Ana Margarete B. de Freitas
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