Adam Green

The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue

Knowledge as a Team Achievement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Green's account is based on the extended credit view, which conceives of knowledge as an achievement and broadens that focus to include team achievements in addition to individual ones. He argues that this view does a better job than alternatives of answering the many conceptual and empirical challenges for virtue epistemology that have been based on cases of testimony. The view also allows for a nuanced interaction with situationist psychology, dual processing models in cognitive science, and the extended mind literature in philosophy of mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781138236356
• ISBN-10: 1138236357
• Artikelnr.: 47224546

Autorenporträt

Adam Green is an assistant professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. His work ranges over epistemology, the philosophy and cognitive science of religion, and philosophical psychology. His previous work on social epistemology has appeared in American Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Episteme, and Philosophical Explorations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Basic Challenge and Basic View
2. Role-Based Normativity
3. Empirical Challenges for Testimony
4. Situationism, Heuristics, and a Broader Empirical Challenge
5. Kinds of Credit
6. The Ability Condition
7. Socially Distributed Cognition
8. Authority and Injustice
9. When Social Creatures Disagree
Conclusion
Appendix --Environmental Luck