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Author Kelp, Christoph

Title Good Thinking : a Knowledge First Virtue Epistemology
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (145 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Ser
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Process Reliabilism; 2 Virtue Reliabilism: Justified Belief; 3 Virtue Reliabilism: Knowledge; 4 Knowledge First Virtue Reliabilism; 5 The Competition; Appendix The Safety Dilemma; Appendix Lottery Cases; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book combines virtue reliabilism with knowledge first epistemology to develop novel accounts of knowledge and justified belief. It is virtue reliabilist in that knowledge and justified belief are accounted for in terms of epistemic ability. It is knowledge first epistemological in that, unlike traditional virtue reliabilism, it does not unpack the notion of epistemic ability as an ability to form true beliefs but as an ability to know, thus offering a definition of justified belief in terms of knowledge. In addition, the book aims to show that this version of knowledge first virtue reliabilism serves to provide novel solutions to a number of core epistemological problems and, as a result, compares favourably with alternative versions of virtue reliabilism both in the traditionalist and in the knowledge first camp. This is the first ever book-length development of knowledge first virtue reliabilism, and it will contribute to recent debates in these two growing areas of epistemology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Virtue epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
belief.
Christoph Kelp.
coarse-grainedness.
competent belief.
epistemic ability.
epistemology.
Gettier cases.
justification.
justified belief.
knowledge.
knowledge-first epistemology.
lottery paradox.
new evil demon problem.
process reliabilism.
testimonial knowledge.
virtue reliabilism.
Knowledge, Theory of
Virtue epistemology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429847615
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