Virtue and Skill

Week 9

(22.03.)

Is epistemic normativity just a special case of skill normativity?

Horst, “Is Epistemic Competence a Skill?”

Pavese, “Skill in Epistemology”

Epistemic Agency

Week 8

(15.03.)

Are beliefs exercises of agency? And if so, what kind of agency?

Nolfi, “Functional and Judgmental Beliefs”

Hieronymi, “Controlling Attitudes”

Sosa’s Virtue Reliabilism III: Full Aptness

Week 7

(08.03.)

What is fully apt judgment?

Sosa, Judgment and Agency (ch. 3); Sosa, “How Competence Matters in Epistemology” (§§ 10-13)

Sosa, Knowing Full Well (ch. 1)

Sosa’s Virtue Reliabilism II: Epistemic Competence

Week 6

(01.03.)

What is epistemic competence?

Sosa, Judgment and Agency (pp. 95-106); Sosa, “How Competence Matters in Epistemology” (until § 10)

Sosa’s Virtue Reliabilism I: The Triple A Model.

Week 5

(23.02.)

Is knowledge a special case of skillful success?

Sosa, A Virtue Epistemology (selection); Sosa, Judgment and Agency (selection)

Carter, Stratified Virtue Epistemology (pp. 13-34)