Ernie Sosa’s unique brand of performance-based virtue epistemology continues to mature. His fourth book in epistemology in twice as many years, Judgment and Agency (2015) deepens and extends Sosa’s previous work on the nature and value of knowledge. The result is impressive. Judgment and Agency reads like a product of sustained, penetrating philosophical reflection by one of the great minds in ...

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Two common theses in contemporary epistemology are that 'knowl-edge excludes luck' and that knowledge depends on 'purely epistemic' factors. In this essay, I shall argue as follows: given some plausible assumptions, 'anti-luck epistemology,' which is committed to the fi rst thesis, implies the falsity of the second thesis. That is, I will argue that anti-luck epistemology leads to what has been...

A growing body of research about personal epistemological beliefs has provided tertiary educators with evidence to inform strategies in promoting eff ective teaching and learning. Personal epistemological beliefs refer to an individual’s beliefs about the nature of knowing and knowledge and are considered to infl uence how one engages in teaching and learning experiences. Th ere has been very l...

hen people ask about the meaning of life, they have to be given a metaphysical answer. Whether the answer will seem plausible or not, depends on their mindset. It cannot be checked in the domain of experience because the question explicitly leads beyond that domain. Questions about language and how words come to have meaning, are of a different sort and they deserve an answer that speakers of a...

In spite of the scale, popularity, and importance of the open courseware movement for users worldwide, there is yet no quality assessment framework that could support users on their quest for finding the most appropriate learning resource with regard to their educational needs. This paper presents both an evaluation and a comparison between three open courseware on databases offered by three ma...

we show a lot of respect for science today. to back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. it seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. we can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. nonetheless, epistemological jus...

Consider this picture of the skeptical dilemma: Descartes sits in his armchair, wondering what the world is like, and worried whether it is as it seems to be. He realizes that there are many ways the world could be — many possible ways for the world to be — that he lacks the resources to choose between. Since all the possibilities he’s considering include his having experiences like the ones he...

Abstract: In the epistemology of late Wittgenstein, a central place is given to notion hinge: an arational commitment that provides foundation some sort for rest our beliefs. Quasi-fideism approach religion argues religious belief on epistemic par with other sorts inasmuch as and non-religious beliefs all rely hinges. I consider in this paper what it takes find appropriate hinge quasi-fideist r...