Virtue Epistemology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780826497949)

Contemporary epistemology debates have largely been occupied with formulating a definition of knowledge that is immune to any counterexample. To date, no definition has been able to escape unscathed.

Moving away from debates about definitions, Virtue Epistemology shows what conditions are essential for knowledge and applies this account to different domains. It proposes that agents must be motivated correctly to acquire knowledge, even in the case of perception.

Stephen Napier examines closely the empirical research in cognitive science and moral psychology to build an account of knowledge wherein an agent must perform acts of virtue in order to get knowledge. In so doing, Napier provides answers to two key questions: 'what is knowledge?' and 'how do we get it?'

Author: Stephen Napier
ISBN-10: 0826497942
ISBN-13: 9780826497949
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 02/13/2009 pg. 21
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 9