Ernest Sosa presents a new approach to the problems of knowledge and scepticism. He argues for two levels of knowledge, the animal and the reflective, each viewed as a distinctive human accomplishment. Sosa's virtue epistemology illuminates different varieties of scepticism, the nature and status of intuitions, and epistemic normativity.

Ernest Sosa collects essays, written over the last 25 years, on the scope and nature of human knowledge.

Explaining the nature of knowledge, this book presents an account of the author's views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. It shows how experience should be understood if it is to figure in the epistemic competence that must be manifest in the truth of any belief apt enough to constitute knowledge.

Papers by leading figures on metaphysical issues pertaining to epistemology. Topics treated include the metaphysics of perception and of experience, disjunctivism, content externalism, epistemic abilities, the lottery paradox, the epistemology of consciousness, the metaphysics of knowledge as a state, and the ontology of reasons.

New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge.

The topic of this volume is controversies at the interface of epistemology with philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, including discussion of the Sorites Paradox and linguistic contextualism on attributions of knowledge.

This collection includes papers that show some of the bearing of indisciplinary work on central questions of philosophy.

* Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language * Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years * Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language.

This volume of Philosophical Issues, on normativity, has unusually broad scope, and should have correspondingly broad appeal both because of its issues and because of its contributors. The volume includes contributions to moral psychology, theory of reasons and rationality, political philosophy, ethics, metaethics, and epistemology.

New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge.

This tenth volume of Philosophical Issues , a yearly one-volume supplement to Nous, covers the topic of controversies at the interface of epistemology with philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Brings together fresh debates on eleven of the most controversial issues in epistemology. This book addresses such questions as: Is knowledge contextual? Can skepticism be refuted? Can beliefs be justified through coherence alone? And, is justified belief responsible belief?