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

<p>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 to default assumptions important in domains of human performance generally, and in our intellectual lives as a special case. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now seems a first approximation. This part also introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories and defends in particular a category of secure knowledge.<br /></p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Sosa, Prof Ernest

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

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