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8The Essentials of PersonsDialectica 53 (3-4): 227-241. 1999.This paper tries to clarify the nature of philosophical questions as to the ontological nature of things, especially persons. It considers implications of an Aristotelian account, which leads to an ontology that makes subjects and other things epistemologically remote. This makes the account doubtfully reconcilable with the special epistemic relation that each of us has to oneself, via for example the cogito.
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61Ontology, Understanding, and the A PrioriRatio 16 (2): 178-188. 2003.How might one explain the reliability of one's a priori beliefs? What if anything is implied about the ontology of a certain realm of knowledge by the possibility of explaining one's reliability about that realm? Very little, or so it is argued here.
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141A virtue epistemology: Apt belief and reflective knowledge, volume I * by Ernest Sosa (review)Analysis 69 (2): 382-385. 2007.Ernest Sosa's A Virtue Epistemology, Vol. I is arguably the single-most important monograph to be published in analytic epistemology in the last ten years. Sosa, the first in the field to employ the notion of intellectual virtue – in his ground-breaking ‘The Raft and the Pyramid’– is the leading proponent of reliabilist versions of virtue epistemology. In A Virtue Epistemology, he deftly defends an externalist account of animal knowledge as apt belief, argues for a distinction between animal and…Read more
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On Practical Inference with an Excursus on Theoretical InferenceLogique Et Analyse 13 (49): 213. 1970.
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20Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 12 13-33. 2001.One enduring legacy of the twentieth century will be the slow, certain transformation of the world from insular civilizations to interactive societies enmeshed in global systems of electronic communication, economics, and politics. Financial news from Thailand or Brazil is often more important globally than political events in the old centers of power. Some bemoan the uncertainty and flux of all this. However, the mutual definition of the world’s societies presents an extraordinary opportunity t…Read more
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32Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 12 13-33. 2001.One enduring legacy of the twentieth century will be the slow, certain transformation of the world from insular civilizations to interactive societies enmeshed in global systems of electronic communication, economics, and politics. Financial news from Thailand or Brazil is often more important globally than political events in the old centers of power. Some bemoan the uncertainty and flux of all this. However, the mutual definition of the world’s societies presents an extraordinary opportunity t…Read more
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43Modal and Other A Priori Epistemology: How Can We Know What is Possible and What Impossible?Southern Journal of Philosophy 38 (S1): 1-16. 2000.
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39Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 12 13-33. 2001.One enduring legacy of the twentieth century will be the slow, certain transformation of the world from insular civilizations to interactive societies enmeshed in global systems of electronic communication, economics, and politics. Financial news from Thailand or Brazil is often more important globally than political events in the old centers of power. Some bemoan the uncertainty and flux of all this. However, the mutual definition of the world’s societies presents an extraordinary opportunity t…Read more
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Standard ConditionsIn Sören Halldén (ed.), Modality, morality and other problems of sense and nonsense, Gleerup. pp. 115. 1973.
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