Performance Epistemology: Foundations and Applications
Miguel Ángel Fernández Vargas
Abstract
This book brings together previously unpublished work which discuss key issues concerning the foundations and applications of a prominent branch of virtue epistemology called “performance-based epistemology” (PBE). The chapters in Part I examine some foundational issues in the conceptual framework of PBE and the chapters in Part II discuss the application of PBE to some outstanding problems in contemporary epistemology. Chapter 1 discusses the compatibility of apt success with some forms of luck; Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 debate the connection between aptness and a safety condition for knowledge ... More
This book brings together previously unpublished work which discuss key issues concerning the foundations and applications of a prominent branch of virtue epistemology called “performance-based epistemology” (PBE). The chapters in Part I examine some foundational issues in the conceptual framework of PBE and the chapters in Part II discuss the application of PBE to some outstanding problems in contemporary epistemology. Chapter 1 discusses the compatibility of apt success with some forms of luck; Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 debate the connection between aptness and a safety condition for knowledge; Chapter 4 discusses the fallibility of perceptual recognitional abilities; Chapter 5 criticizes actual-world reliabilism and proposes a different form of reliabilism about epistemic justification; Chapter 6 discusses the nature of the agency required to make a cognitive success truly one’s own; Chapter 7 sketches some ways of enriching the basic conceptual framework of PBE. Chapter 8 criticizes Ernest Sosa’s epistemology of a priori intuition; Chapter 9 presents internalist objections to Sosa’s views on second-order knowledge; Chapter 10 criticizes the roles that epistemic agency is meant to play in PBE; Chapter 11 explores the value that second-order reflection may have; Chapter 12 attempts to characterize a kind of epistemic incompetence it calls “stupidity,” and Chapter 13 presents a solution to the problem of epistemic circularity and criticizes Sosa’s alternative solution.
Keywords:
virtue epistemology,
performance-based epistemology,
Ernest Sosa,
epistemic normativity,
epistemic competence,
epistemic performance,
epistemic evaluation,
cognitive ability
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198746942 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746942.001.0001 |
