Ernest Sosa Targeting His Philosophy [Paperback]

This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosas latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years. Ernest Sosa, one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers, is best known for his ground-breaking work in epistemology, and has also contributed greatly to metaphysics, metaphilosophy and philosophy of language.

This book, resulting from the 18th M?nster Lectures in Philosophy, includes an original article by Sosa on his most recent work in epistemology, and seven critical papers that target a wide range of topics from Sosas oeuvre, as well as Sosas responses. As regards his epistemology, the issues discussed include his solution of the sceptical problem in his most recent work and the question of how to integrate a sensible account of testimony to Sosas virtue epistemology.

The selected topics from his other fields of inquiry include his view on empirical challenges to human rationality, his defense of the scientific status of philosophy,  his concept of causality as considered against the background of the current debate, his suggestion of a middle-way between existential relativism and absolutism and his externalistic internalism in the philosophy of mind and language.

Preface.- Chapter 1: A Sketch of His Epistemology.- Chapter 2: Knowledge in Action.- Chapter 3: Manifesting Ones Competences Successfully and Aptly: Enough to Beat the Sceptic?.- Chapter 4: Putting Testimony in Its Place.- Chapter 5 : Man the Irrational Animal?.- Chapter 6: Yes There Can! Rehabilitating Philosophy as a Scientific Discipline.- Chapter 7: Causation, Constitution and Existence.- Chapter 8: A Snowslide of Entities: Does Sosas Existential Relativism Provide a Barrier Against Being Buried?.- Chapter 9: What Makes my Thought About X a Thought About X? Putting Sosas Externalistic Internalism to the Test.- Chapter 1lc.