Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency

Author:   Abrol Fairweather (San Francisco State University) ,  Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   204
Publication Date:   18 May 2017
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Author:   Abrol Fairweather (San Francisco State University) ,  Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9781107089822


ISBN 10:   1107089824
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   18 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Introduction: why only agents are knowers; 1. Epistemic virtue, reliable attention and cognitive constitution; 2. Meta-epistemology and epistemic agency; 3. Success semantics and the etiology of success; 4. Epistemic agency; 5. Assertion as epistemic motivation; 6. Curiosity and epistemic achievement; 7. Collective agency, assertion and information.

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'This is an excellent book ... The reader gets a balanced, critical account of how virtue epistemology stands today. The argumentation is judicious and insightful. I learned a great deal from it, and so, I think, will anybody who reads it.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 'This is an excellent book ... The reader gets a balanced, critical account of how virtue epistemology stands today. The argumentation is judicious and insightful. I learned a great deal from it, and so, I think, will anybody who reads it.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


'This is an excellent book ... The reader gets a balanced, critical account of how virtue epistemology stands today. The argumentation is judicious and insightful. I learned a great deal from it, and so, I think, will anybody who reads it.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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Abrol Fairweather is Lecturer in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has edited several volumes on virtue epistemology, including Virtue Epistemology (with Linda Zagzebski, 2001), Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue (with Own Flanagan, 2014), and Epistemic Situationism (with Mark Alfano, 2017). Carlos Montemayor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (2013) and Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention (with H. H. Haladjian, 2015).

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