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D-Index
55
Citations
17835
World Ranking
1977
National Ranking
948

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Ernest Sosa is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, political science, international relations, and artificial intelligence. The primary focus lies in areas related to epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics as well as free will and agency.

Sosa has contributed to various topics in their work, specifically:

  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Philosophical Thought and Analysis
  • Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

Their frequent co-authors include Gary S. Rosenkrantz, Alvin I. Goldman, Sara Saborido, Felicia Nimue, and Ackerman Robert. These collaborations reflect an interdisciplinary approach involving various aspects of philosophy and cognitive science.

Sosa has published papers in several notable philosophy journals. The most frequent venues for publication are:

  • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • Ratio
  • Noûs
  • Trans/Form/Ação
  • Midwest Studies in Philosophy

Recent papers authored by Sosa include:

  • Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism: why the problem applies to process reliabilism, but not to virtue reliabilism (2021) - Trans/Form/Ação
  • Skepticism and Default Assumptions (2021) - Midwest Studies in Philosophy
  • On Veritism. Pritchard's Defense (2021) - Epistemology & Philosophy of Science

In 2001, Ernest Sosa was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an acknowledgment indicating a role within the broader academic community.

Best Publications

  • Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology

    Ernest Sosa

  • How to Defeat Opposition to Moore

    Ernest Sosa

  • A Virtue Epistemology

    Ernest Sosa

  • The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge

    Ernest Sosa

  • Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues

    Laurence BonJour;Ernest Sosa

  • A Companion to Epistemology

    Jonathan Dancy;Jonathan Dancy;Ernest Sosa

  • Contemporary Debates in Epistemology

    Matthias Steup;Ernest Sosa

  • Judgment and Agency

    Ernest Sosa

  • Knowing Full Well

    Ernest Sosa

  • Experimental philosophy and philosophical intuition

    Ernest Sosa

  • The Epistemology of Testimony

    Jennifer Lackey;Ernest Sosa

  • Reflective Knowledge: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge

    Ernest Sosa

  • Causation and conditionals

    Ernest Sosa

  • Skepticism and Contextualism

    Ernest Sosa

  • The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology

    John Greco;Ernest Sosa

  • The Place of Truth in Epistemology

    Ernest Sosa

  • Supervenience and mind: The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation

    Jaegwon Kim;Ernest Sosa

  • How competence matters in epistemology

    Ernest Sosa

  • Externalism, Epistemic Artefacts and The Extended Mind

    Kim Sterelny

  • A Companion to Metaphysics

    Jaegwon Kim;Ernest Sosa;Gary S. Rosenkrantz

  • Knowledge in perspective: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE IN PERSPECTIVE: THE VIEW DEVELOPED

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaegwon Kim
Jaegwon Kim Brown University
Roderick M. Chisholm
Roderick M. Chisholm Brown University
Nicholas Rescher
Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh
Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga University of Notre Dame
Gilbert Harman
Gilbert Harman Princeton University
Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms University of California, Irvine
William G. Lycan
William G. Lycan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Linda Zagzebski
Linda Zagzebski University of Oklahoma
Alvin I. Goldman
Alvin I. Goldman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum University of Chicago

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