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)

Greco’s Virtue Reliabilism

Week 4 (16.02.)

Is knowledge success from ability?

Greco, “Knowledge and Success from Ability”; Carter, Stratified Virtue Epistemology (pp. 2-23)

Lackey, “Why We Don’t Deserve Credit for Everything We Know”; Pritchard, Epistemology (ch.3, “Virtue Epistemology”)