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    Contents and objects of experience
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 32 (1): 209-212. 1988.
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    Propositional knowledge
    Philosophical Studies 20 (3). 1969.
    The received definition of knowledge (as true, evident belief) has recently been questioned by Edmund Gettier with an example whose principle is as follows. A proposition, p, is both evident to and accepted by someone S, who sees that its truth entails (would entail) (that either p is true or q is true). This last is thereby made evident to him, and he accepts it, but it happens to be true only because q is true, since p is in fact false. Hence, inasmuch as he has no evidence for the proposition…Read more
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    Are we souls, subjects of consciousness who exist and perdure fundamentally while unextended in space? Recent epistemological arguments for the negative leave me relatively cold; but other arguments are more moving, and we shall take note of them.
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    How competence matters in epistemology
    Philosophical Perspectives 24 (1): 465-475. 2010.
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    On the Logic of "Intrinsically Better"
    with Roderick M. Chisholm
    American Philosophical Quarterly 3 (3): 244-249. 1966.
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    Metaphysics: an anthology (edited book)
    Blackwell. 1999.
    Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects. One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available - now updated and expanded Offers the most important contemporary works on the central i…Read more
  • Rastreo, competencia y conocimiento
    Quaderns De Filosofia I Ciència 34 41-59. 2004.
  • Persons and Other Beings
    Philosophical Perspectives 1 155. 1987.
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    Truth centered epistemology puts truth at the center in more ways than one. For one thing, it makes truth a main cognitive goal of inquiry. For another, it explains other main epistemic concepts in terms of truth. Knowledge itself, for example, is explained as belief that meets certain other conditions, among them being true. And a belief is said to be rationally or epistemically justified or apt, which it must be in order to be knowledge, only if it derives from a truth-conducive faculty, an in…Read more
  •  2
    Knowledge: Instrumental and testimonial
    In Jennifer Lackey & Ernest Sosa (eds.), The Epistemology of Testimony, Oxford University Press. pp. 116--123. 2006.
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    Replies
    In Amrei Bahr & Markus Seidel (eds.), Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy, Springer. pp. 135-146. 2016.
    For me the two-day workshop was an excellent experience. It was very good to be reminded of all those issues that I had grappled with so intensely in earlier years, and I very much appreciated the opportunity to think about them again and to try to put them in perspective with the stimulus of the critical teams’ focused attention. I am very pleased and grateful for the intense attention and challenge to my views, and for the excellent comments. I will do my best to respond with some helpful disc…Read more
  •  16
    Berkeley's master stroke
    In John Foster & Howard Robinson (eds.), Essays on Berkeley: a tercentennial celebration, Oxford University Press. 1985.
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    Replies to Richard Fumerton, John Greco, and Michael Williams
    International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 1 (2): 138-149. 2011.
    This is my response to three commentators—Richard Fumerton, John Greco, and Michael Williams—for a symposium on my book, Reflective Knowledge
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    Experience and intentionality
    Philosophical Topics 14 (1): 67-83. 1986.
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    Replies
    Noûs 34 (s1): 38-42. 2000.
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    From the back cover: "Ever since Plato, philosophers have faced one central question: What is the scope and nature of human knowledge? In this volume the distinguished philosopher Ernest Sosa has collected his essays on this subject written over a period of twenty-five years. All the major topics of contemporary epistemology are covered: the nature of propositional knowledge, externalism versus internalism, foundationalism versus coherentism, and the problem of the criterion. The resulting book …Read more
  •  990
    Intuitions: Their nature and epistemic efficacy
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 74 (1): 51-67. 2007.
    This paper presents an account of intuitions, and a defense of their epistemic efficacy in general, and more specifically in philosophy, followed by replies in response to various objections.
  •  5
    Are There Two Grades of Knowledge?
    Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 77 (1): 113-130. 2003.
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    A. Knowledge and Justification: The nature of epistemic justification and its supervenience.B. Understanding and Validation: Two projects of epistemology, one to understand justification, the other to promote it.
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    Replies to Brown, Pritchard and Conee
    Philosophical Studies 143 (3): 427-440. 2009.
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    Dreams and philosophy
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 79 (2). 2005.
    That conception is orthodox in today’s common sense and also historically. Presupposed by Plato, Augustine, and Descartes, it underlies familiar skeptical paradoxes. Similar orthodoxy is also found in our developing science of sleep and dreaming.[2] Despite such confluence.
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    The foundations of foundationalism
    Noûs 14 (4): 547-564. 1980.
    There is a controversy in contemporary philosophy over the question whether or not knowledge must have a foundation. On one side are the foundationalists, who do accept the metaphor and find the foundation in sensory experience or the like. The coherentists, on the other side, reject the foundations metaphor and consider our body of knowledge a coherent whole floating free of any foundations. This controversy grew rapidly with the rise of idealism many years ago, and it is prominent today not on…Read more
  •  209
    Intuitions and meaning divergence
    Philosophical Psychology 23 (4): 419-426. 2010.
    Survey results are in the first instance utterances, which require interpretation. Moreover, when the results seem to involve disagreement in intuitive responses to a thought experiment, the results are most directly responsive to the scenario as envisaged by the particular subject, where the text of the example can give rise to relevantly different scenarios, depending on how the scenario is shaped by the subjects involved, under the guidance of the text. All of this opens up a defense of intui…Read more
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    Reflective Knowledge draws together ground-breaking work in epistemology by Ernest Sosa. He argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on virtuous circularity, shows how this idea may be found explicitly or just below the surface in such illustrious predecessors as Descartes and Moore, and defends the view against its rivals.
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    Chapter one. Knowing Full Well
    In Knowing Full Well, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-13. 2010.