Virtue epistemology and the analysis of knowledge : toward a non-reductive model /

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Author / Creator:Church, Ian M., author.
Imprint:London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
©2023
Description:256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13012543
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ISBN:9781350258389
1350258385
9781350258402
9781350258396
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:ebook version : 9781350258402
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This book centers on two dominant trends within contemporary epistemology: first, the dissatisfaction with the project of analyzing knowledge in terms of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions and, second, the surging popularity of virtue-theoretic approaches to knowledge.

Church argues that the Gettier Problem, the primary reason for abandoning the reductive analysis project, cannot viably be solved, and that prominent approaches to virtue epistemology fail to solve the Gettier Problem precisely along the lines his diagnosis predicts.

Such an outcome motivates Church to explore a better way forward: non-reductive virtue epistemology. In so doing, he makes room for virtue epistemologies that are not only able to endure what he sees as inevitable developments in 21st-century epistemology, but also able to contribute positively to debates and discussions across the discipline and beyond.

Physical Description:256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781350258389
1350258385
9781350258402
9781350258396