Quotes by Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa

A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots “crazy” is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers.

Archer

Crazy

Hunting

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

Accounts

Humans

Successful

Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer’s epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.

Animal

Hands

Trying

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

Common

Common Sense

Defense

Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then you do know whether or not you see a barn. You have “animal” knowledge, says my virtue theory, through the first-order aptness of your judgment.

Animal

Order

Real

Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on. These feature distinctive aims, and corresponding competences. Archery, with its distinctive arrows and targets, divides into subdomains. Thus, competitive archery differs importantly from archery hunting.

Archery

Hunting

Sports

Compare the credit for a football touchdown, which might be shared by the receiver not only with the quarterback, but also with the linesmen who make crucial protective plays, etc. The success of the touchdown play depends on the receiver, it is true; but in a particular case it might depend far more on the work of others.

Credit

Football

Play

Descartes’s epistemology is a special case of Aristotle’s virtue ethics.

Ethics

Special

Virtue

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

Competence

Might

Stills

Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.

Philosophical

Philosophy

Views

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Archer

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Assassins

Assessment

Athletic

Belief

Believer

Chance

Choices

Color

Common

Common Sense

Competence

Contrast

Correctness

Crazy

Credit

Curiosity

Dark

Data

Defense

Definition Of Success

Definitions

Desire

Distance

Doe

Done

Dream

Enough

Epistemology

Errors

Ethics

Evaluation

Exercise

Experts

Eye

Faculty

Fall

Football

Form

Formal

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Quotes by Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa

A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots “crazy” is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers.

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer’s epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then you do know whether or not you see a barn. You have “animal” knowledge, says my virtue theory, through the first-order aptness of your judgment.

Descartes’s epistemology is a special case of Aristotle’s virtue ethics.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

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