Descartes and Virtue Epistemology

Ernest Sosa

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Descartes and Virtue Epistemology

Ernest Sosa

School of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy

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This chapter aims to provide an account of Descartes's project in the Meditations that will fit various passages in the text that are incompatible with earlier interpretations. It emerges that Descartes upholds in all of its parts an epistemology that has come to be knows on the contemporary scene as "virtue epistemology." This is the robust virtue epistemology that takes epistemic normativity to be the AAA performance normativity of accuracy, adroitness, and aptness, that distinguishes between animal and reflective knowledge, and that embraces epistemic circularity.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind
Subtitle of host publication	New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199932184
ISBN (Print)	9780199766864
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766864.003.0010
State	Published - May 24 2012

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Animal knowledge
Apt belief
Descartes
Epistemic circularity
Reflective knowledge
Virtue epistemology

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