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This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and
evaluation of Ernest Sosa's profound and wide-ranging philosophy,
in epistemology and beyond. A balanced, fair and critical volume,
it offers a sensitive appreciation of his wide philosophical
purview, a nuanced assessment of the detail of his thought, and a
spur to exploring the linkages between the varied topics explored
by the subtle mind of this great American scholar. The papers
explore a wealth of Sosa's academic interests, including his work
on philosophical method, the philosophy of mind and language,
metaphysics, and value theory, in addition to his output on
epistemology itself. It offers, for example, a rebuttal of the
counterarguments to Sosa's reliabilist theory of introspective
justification, which itself concludes with some objections to
Sosa's stated views on the 'speckled hen' problem. Other authors
track the connections of his virtue theory to his advocacy of
bi-level epistemology, provide reflections on Sosa's views on the
epistemological tradition, and examine the nexus of his beliefs on
intuition and philosophical methodology. This volume is an
insightful reckoning of Sosa's academic account.
Infinitism is an ancient view in epistemology about the structure
of knowledge and epistemic justification, according to which there
are no foundational reasons for belief. The view has never been
popular, and is often associated with skepticism, but after
languishing for centuries it has recently begun a resurgence. Ad
Infinitum presents new work on the topic by leading
epistemologists. They shed new light on infinitism's distinctive
strengths and weaknesses, and address questions, new and old, about
its account of justification, reasoning, epistemic responsibility,
disagreement, and trust, among other important issues. The volume
clarifies the relationship between infinitism and other
epistemological views, such as skepticism, coherentism,
foundationalism and contextualism, and it offers novel perspectives
on the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of regresses and
reasons.
Epistemic norms play an increasingly important role in many current
debates in epistemology and beyond. Paramount among these are
debates about belief, action, and assertion. Three primary
questions organize the literature. What epistemic requirements
constrain appropriate belief? What epistemic requirements constrain
appropriate assertion? What epistemic requirements constrain
appropriate action? With the tremendous but disparate growth of the
literature on epistemic norms, the time is ripe for a volume
bringing together papers by established and emerging figures, with
an eye toward the interconnections among our three questions. That
is precisely what this volume seeks to do.
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