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1 online resource |
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Cover; Performance Epistemology: Foundations and Applications; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Performance Epistemology: Foundations and Applications; I; II; III; References; PART I: Foundational Issues; Chapter 1: Epistemic Competence and Judgment; A. Animal Knowledge; B. How Does Near-actual Simulation Affect Competence and Aptness?; C. Why It Is More Complicated; D. Judgment and Judgmental Belief; E. The Structure of Competences (and Abilities); F. Competences, Epistemic and Otherwise; G. The Nature and Epistemology of Competences; References |
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Chapter 2: Dispositional Robust Virtue Epistemology versus Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology1. Introductory Remarks; 2. Sosa's Dispositional Robust Virtue Epistemology; 3. DRVE and Negative Epistemic Dependence; 4. DRVE and Positive Epistemic Dependence; 5. DRVE versus Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology; References; Chapter 3: Knowledge, Virtue, and Safety; Part One: Varieties of Safety; Part Two: How to Think about Virtue and Safety; Part Three: Dreamers and Jokesters; References; Chapter 4: Abilities, Competences, and Fallibility; 1. Introduction |
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2. The Ability to Ride a Bicycle and Kindred Abilities3. Having an Ability and Being Reliably Successful; 4. Hard Performances and Completable Performances; 5. Mental Acts; 6. Sosa and Competence; References; Chapter 5: Against Actual-world Reliabilism: Epistemically Correct Procedures and Reliably True Outcomes; I. Being in the Right; II. The Correct Procedures Conception; III. The Reliabilist Programme; IV. Cognitive Essentialism; V. Special-worlds Reliabilism; VI. Normal-worlds Reliabilism; VII. Actual-world Reliabilism; VIII. Absolutist Actual-world Reliabilism |
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IX. Indexicalist Actual-world ReliabilismX. The Explanatory Burden; XI. Moving Forward: Normal-conditions Reliabilism; References; Chapter 6: Who Knows?; 1. What Happens When Someone Acts?; 2. Why Does Knowledge Require an Epistemic Agent?; 3. Clarifications; 4. The Value of Knowledge; References; Chapter 7: Knowledge as Achievement, More or Less; 1. A Basic Model of Performance Assessment; 2. The Achievement Account of Knowledge; 3. The Ample Achievement Account of Knowledge; 4. The Attainment Account of Knowledge; 5. Knowledge and Truth; 6. Conclusion; References |
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PART II: Applications and ProblemsChapter 8: Intuitions and the Understanding; Introduction; Sosa on Intuitions; The Nature of Intuitions and the Understanding; Understanding and A Priori Justification; Rejecting the Link between the Nature of Intuitions and the Understanding; Rejecting the Link between Justificatory Power of Intuitions and the Understanding; Intuitions without the Understanding; A Priori Justification without the Understanding; Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Rising above the Animals: The Search for Intellectual Assurance; Points of Agreement; Animal-level Knowledge |
| Summary |
Performance-based epistemology conceives the normativity involved in epistemic evaluation as a special case of a pattern of evaluation that can be applied to any domain where there are agents that carry out performances with an aim. This volume presents new essays by leading epistemologists on the foundations and applications of this approach |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fernández Vargas, Miguel Ángel, editor
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| ISBN |
0191063967 |
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9780191063961 |
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9780191809156 |
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0191809152 |
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