• Realism and Relativism
    with Enrique Villaneuva
    Blackwell. 2002.
  •  5
    Pyrrhonian skepticism and human agency
    Philosophical Issues 23 (1): 1-17. 2013.
  •  4
    Imagery and Imagination
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 25 (1): 485-499. 1985.
    1. Sensa and propositional experience. 2. An option between propositions and properties (as objects or contents of sensory experience). 3. The property option and adverbialism. 4. Sensa as images, images as intentionalia. 5. Do we refer directly to sensa? 6. Focusing and the supervenience of images and our reference to them: a question raised. 7. Internal and external properties of images and characters. Strict vistas introduced. 8. A correction on strict vistas. 9. Focusing and experience: the …Read more
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    Scriven on Causation as Explanation
    Theory and Decision 13 (4): 357-361. 1981.
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    Mind-body interaction and supervenient causation
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 9 (1): 271-81. 1984.
    The mind-body problem arises because of our status as double agents apparently en rapport both with the mental and with the physical. We think, desire, decide, plan, suffer passions, fall into moods, are subject to sensory experiences, ostensibly perceive, intend, reason, make believe, and so on. We also move, have a certain geographical position, a certain height and weight, and we are sometimes hit or cut or burned. In other words, human beings have both minds and bodies. What is the relation …Read more
  •  11
    Virtue perspectivism: A response to Foley and Fumerton
    Philosophical Issues 5 29-50. 1994.
    I am grateful to both Richards, Foley and Fumerton, for the time and attention that they have given to my work. I have certainly learned from their excellent comments, just as I expected. Given the constraints, however, I must be selective in my response. First of all, I will aim to present my view of human knowledge in a broader context. Against this background I will then respond to several of the points they have made.
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    Chapter five. Contextualism
    In Knowing Full Well, Princeton University Press. pp. 96-107. 2010.
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    Sources and Deliverances
    In Chienkuo Mi Ruey-lin Chen (ed.), Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Brill | Rodopi. pp. 7--9. 2007.
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    Replies
    Philosophical Papers 40 (3). 2004.
    Philosophical Papers, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 341-358, November 2011
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    Knowledge in Context, Skepticism in Doubt
    Philosophical Perspectives 2 139. 1988.
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    The skeptic's appeal
    In Marjorie Clay & Keith Lehrer (eds.), Knowledge and skepticism, Westview Press. 1989.
  •  4
    Contents
    In Knowing Full Well, Princeton University Press. 2010.
  •  2
    Philosophical Issues, Action Theory
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.
    This is a collection of papers on action theory, very broadly conceived. It contains cutting-edge work by some of the most important contributors in the field
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    For the Love of Truth?
    In Abrol Fairweather & Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (eds.), Virtue epistemology: essays on epistemic virtue and responsibility, Oxford University Press. pp. 49-62. 2001.
    Rational beings pursue and value truth . Intellectual conduct is to be judged, accordingly, by how well it aids our pursuit of that ideal. I ask whether these platitudes mean, and whether they are true.
  •  3
    Reply to Linda Zagzebski
    In John Greco (ed.), Ernest Sosa: And His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 319--322. 2004.
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    Quality and Concept by George Bealer (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 82 (7): 382-387. 1985.
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    A Virtue Epistemology presents a new approach to some of the oldest and most gripping problems of philosophy, those of knowledge and scepticism. Ernest Sosa argues for two levels of knowledge, the animal and the reflective, each viewed as a distinctive human accomplishment. By adopting a kind of virtue epistemology in line with the tradition found in Aristotle, Aquinas, Reid, and especially Descartes, he presents an account of knowledge which can be used to shed light on different varieties of s…Read more
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    Précis
    Philosophical Studies 131 (3). 2006.
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    Experience and the Objects of Perception (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 39 (1): 142-144. 1985.
    This study aims primarily at an account of sensory experience and perception uncommitted to objectual sense data or sense impressions. In the end it does make room for sense impressions, but only as entities somehow abstracted from phenomenological attention to sense experience. The "phenomenological standpoint" is attained by imagining "that a transparent screen has been placed at right angles about three feet from your eyes between you and all the objects before you," and by imagining further …Read more
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    Roderick Milton Chisholm (1916-1999)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (2): 5-6. 1999.
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    Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue
    The Monist 68 (2): 226-245. 1985.
    An intellectual virtue is a quality bound to help maximize one’s surplus of truth over error; or so let us assume for now, though a more just conception may include as desiderata also generality, coherence, and explanatory power, unless the value of these is itself explained as derivative from the character of their contribution precisely to one’s surplus of truth over error. This last is an issue I mention in order to lay it aside. Here we assume only a teleological conception of intellectual v…Read more
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    Two Concepts of Knowledge
    Journal of Philosophy 67 (3): 59-66. 1970.
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    A defense of the use of intuitions in philosophy
    In Dominic Murphy & Michael A. Bishop (eds.), Stich and His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 101--112. 2009.
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    On knowledge and context
    Journal of Philosophy 83 (10): 584-585. 1986.
  •  2
    De re belief, action explanations, and the essential indexical
    In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Diana Raffman & Nicholas Asher (eds.), Modality, morality, and belief: essays in honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus, Cambridge University Press. pp. 235--249. 1995.
  • Rastreo, competencia y conocimiento
    Quaderns de Filosofia i Ciència 34 41-59. 2004.
  •  8
    Quality and Concept by George Bealer (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 82 (7): 382-387. 1985.
  •  5
    Is color psychological or biological? Or both?
    Philosophical Issues 7 67-74. 1996.