Virtue Epistemology of Ernest Sosa
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In this article, I explore the views of Ernest Sosa, a living analytic philosopher who developed a
virtue epistemology out of the contemporary virtue ethics. Virtue theory in ethics is personbased
rather than act-based; and similarly virtue theory in epistemology is person-based rather
than belief/proposition-based. In this way, Sosa who has defended person-based theory of
justification with the aid of intellectual virtue, developed a theory that can be an alternative to
foundationalism, coherentism and post-Gettier problems. The theory is a refined version of
reliabilism and its roots can be traced back to Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes and Reid in classical
epistemology and it also basically depends on epistemology of Alvin Goldman in contemporary
epistemology. One of the most important features of this epistemology is refrain from dichotomies
such as foundationalism/coherentism and internalism/externalism and try to surpass
polarization by reconciling them. Finally, virtue epistemology of Sosa defends epistemology as a
normative discipline against Quineist radical naturalized epistemology.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Virtue epistemology,Ernest Sosa,Intellectual Virtue,Reliabilism,Normativity
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