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Where is the Value of Knowledge?
Knowledge is frequently said to be more valuable than true belief. Building upon this intuition, Zagzebski presents a challenge for definitions of knowledge. If a definition adequately captures knowledge, then it should also capture knowledge’s extr…
Where is the Value of Knowledge?
Knowledge is frequently said to be more valuable than true belief. Building upon this intuition, Zagzebski presents a challenge for definitions of knowledge. If a definition adequately captures knowledge, then it should also capture knowledge’s extr…
An appraisal of the evolution of some of the main themes in sosa’s epistemology
In this article, I propose to trace the evolution of three central concepts in Sosa’s epistemology: the distinction between animal and reflective knowledge, closure principles, and the safety condition. These three planks played a central role in th…
A brief discussion of the empirical plausibility of the Reflective Epistemic Agency
This paper aims to discuss one specific feature of Sosa’s performance epistemology, which is what we call Reflective Epistemic Agency. We argue that Sosa defends a problematic version of epistemic agency on its reflective level. We contrast Sosa’s i…
Memory and reflection
I have argued that the Analects of Confucius presents us with a conception of reflection with two components, a retrospective component and a perspective component. The former component involves hindsight or careful examination of the past and as su…
Sosa, general assumptions, and the skeptical trojan horse
For many hinge epistemologists, general, background assumptions are principles that help providing default or presumptive justification to our empirical beliefs. However, the ‘blanketing’ nature of a priori arguments to the end of supporting the rat…
Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism: why the problem applies to process reliabilism, but not to virtue reliabilism
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…
Testimony and intellectual virtues in Hume’s epistemology
In this paper I consider some issues concerning Hume’s epistemology of testimony. I’ll particularly focus on the accusation of reductivism and individualism placed by scholars against Hume’s view on Testimonial evidence based on the 10th section of…
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