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“Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.”

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Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa is a renowned philosopher, born on June 17, 1940. His research focuses on metaphysics, epistemology, and moral philosophy. more

“Compare the credit for a football touchdown, which might be shared by the receiver not only with the quarterback, but also with the linesmen who make crucial protective plays, etc. The success of the touchdown play depends on the receiver, it is true; but in a particular case it might depend far more on the work of others.”

Play Might Cases Football Particular Depends Credit Compare Etc Crucial Protective Quarterback Receiver Touchdowns

Author:Ernest Sosa

“When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.”

Writing Long Might My Own Accepting Knowing Involved Chains Contribution Seats Etc Testimony Competence Small Parts

Author:Ernest Sosa

“Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.”

“We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought if we pursue the project with reliance on science broadly and on our full span of epistemic competences, including the empirical as well as the a priori.”

Ifs Wells Perspective Projects Including Theology Pursue Faculty Reliance Competence

Author:Ernest Sosa

“I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.”

Believe Matter I Believe Space Genre Opera

Author:Erica Brown

“That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.”

Form Literature Individual New Things

Author:Erica Brown

“If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.”

Ifs Writing

Author:Erica Brown

“I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.”

Writing Ideas Character Stories Situation Cutting Written Particular Edges Storytelling Cutting Edge

Author:Erica Brown

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