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Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention

A Theory of Epistemic Agency

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Published: 18th May 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 13mm
Weight: 447g
ISBN-10: 1107089824
ISBN-13: 9781107089822
Barcode No: 9781107089822
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Contemporary cognitive science clearly tells us that attention is modulated for speech and action. While these forms of goal-directed attention are very well researched in psychology, they have not been sufficiently studied by epistemologists. In this book, Abrol Fairweather and Carlos Montemayor develop and defend a theory of epistemic achievements that requires the manifestation of cognitive agency. They examine empirical work on the psychology of attention and assertion, and use it to ground a normative theory of epistemic achievements and virtues. The resulting study is the first sustained, naturalized virtue epistemology, and will be of interest to readers in epistemology, cognitive science, and beyond.

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'This is an excellent book ... The reader gets a balanced, critical account of how virtue epistemology stands today. The argumentation is judicious and insightful. I learned a great deal from it, and so, I think, will anybody who reads it.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews