Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Virtue Epistemology

Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Virtue Epistemology

Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Virtue Epistemology

Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Virtue Epistemology

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Overview

A major figure in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Ernest Sosa is a pioneer of contemporary virtue epistemology. Engaging with his important work for the first time, a team of renowned scholars of Chinese philosophy bring Western analytic epistemology into dialogue with themes and issues in the history of the Chinese tradition in order to reveal multiple points of connection.

Drawing on thinkers and texts from Confucianism, Daoism, and Chinese Buddhism, chapters explore issues central to virtue epistemology, such as the reliabilist and responsibilist divide, the distinction between virtues constitutive of knowledge and virtues auxiliary to knowledge, epistemic competence, and the role of testimony. Including Sosa's constructive and systematic responses to each scholar's interpretation of his work, this volume demonstrates the value of cross-cultural dialogue, advancing the field of virtue epistemology, and paving the way for further engagement between philosophical traditions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350265813
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/27/2023
Series: Fudan Studies in Encountering Chinese Philosophy
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Yong Huang is Professor of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, Yong Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
2. Xunzi, Zhuangzi, and Virtue Epistemology, Kim-chong Chong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
3. Epistemic Competence and Agency in Sosa and Xunzi, Chris Fraser (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
4. In Favor of a Comprehensive Virtue Epistemology? Gregor Paul (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
5. Detachment: A Trait-Reliabilist Virtue in Linji's Chan Buddhiism, Tao Jiang (Rutgers University, USA)
6. Apt Performances as Unity of Knowledge and Action: A Comparative Study of Ernest Sosa's Virtue Epistemology and Wang Yangming's Meta-Ethics, Xiang Huang (Fudan University, China)
7. Hearer's Conditions for Accepting Testimony, Winnie Sung (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
8. Sosa's Reflective Knowledge and Xunzi's Knowledge of the Dao, Leo K. C. Cheung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
9. Epistemic Virtues, The Gettier Problem, and the Rectification of Names, Yingjin Xu (Fudan University, China)
10. Sosa's Reliabilist Reading of Davidson and Zhuangzi's Way Out of Ontological Predicament, Yiu-ming Fung (Tunghai University, Taiwan)
11. Resurrecting Daoist Virtuosity Epistemology, Chad Hansen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
12. A Third Platonic Problem for Sosa? Or How Wang Yangming Can Know Better than Full Well? Yong Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
13. Responses, Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University, USA)
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