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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 41 Citations 12,014 221 World Ranking 2599 National Ranking 1324

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Awards & Achievements

2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Law

His scientific interests lie mostly in Epistemology, Virtue epistemology, Skepticism, Contextualism and Foundationalism. His work in Social epistemology, Analytic philosophy, Coherentism, Epistemology of Wikipedia and Intellectual virtue are all subfields of Epistemology research. His Virtue epistemology research includes themes of Agency and Value.

As a part of the same scientific study, Ernest Sosa usually deals with the Skepticism, concentrating on Externalism and frequently concerns with Foundation, Internalism and externalism, Conceptualization, Proposition and Ignorance. His Contextualism research includes elements of Human knowledge, Agency and Meaning. His Foundationalism research incorporates elements of Obligation, Performance studies, Theology and Rationality.

His most cited work include:

  • A Virtue Epistemology (512 citations)
  • How to Defeat Opposition to Moore (316 citations)
  • Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (265 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Ernest Sosa mostly deals with Epistemology, Metaphysics, Skepticism, Virtue epistemology and Philosophy of language. His Cognitive science research extends to the thematically linked field of Epistemology. His work deals with themes such as Foundationalism, Externalism, Internalism and externalism and Contextualism, which intersect with Skepticism.

His study in Virtue epistemology is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Reliabilism and Epistemic virtue. His Supervenience research incorporates themes from Quine, Reductionism, Anomalous monism, Physicalism and Property. Anomalous monism and Epiphenomenalism are frequently intertwined in his study.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Epistemology (75.23%)
  • Metaphysics (17.29%)
  • Skepticism (13.08%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2008-2020)?

  • Epistemology (75.23%)
  • Metaphysics (17.29%)
  • Skepticism (13.08%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Ernest Sosa mainly investigates Epistemology, Metaphysics, Skepticism, Virtue epistemology and Philosophy of mind. Epistemology and Competence are commonly linked in his work. His Metaphysics study incorporates themes from Umbrella term and Attribution.

His research in Skepticism tackles topics such as Externalism which are related to areas like Philosophical skepticism. Ernest Sosa studied Virtue epistemology and Human knowledge that intersect with Value and Contextualism. His research investigates the connection between Philosophy of mind and topics such as Subject that intersect with issues in Wright, State of affairs and Correctness.

Between 2008 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Reflective Knowledge: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge (214 citations)
  • Knowing Full Well (183 citations)
  • Judgment and Agency (141 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Law

His primary areas of study are Epistemology, Virtue epistemology, Metaphysics, Competence and Philosophy of mind. As part of his studies on Epistemology, Ernest Sosa often connects relevant subjects like Cognitive science. His work carried out in the field of Virtue epistemology brings together such families of science as Human knowledge and Agency.

His work in Competence tackles topics such as Philosophy of language which are related to areas like Order. In Philosophy of mind, Ernest Sosa works on issues like Skepticism, which are connected to Externalism, Internalism and externalism and Perception. His studies deal with areas such as Contemporary philosophy, Analytic philosophy and Social epistemology as well as Philosophy of science.

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Best Publications

Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology

Ernest Sosa.
(1991)

1174 Citations

A Virtue Epistemology

Ernest Sosa.
(2007)

784 Citations

How to Defeat Opposition to Moore

Ernest Sosa.
Noûs (1999)

770 Citations

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

Ernest Sosa.
Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1980)

710 Citations

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

Laurence BonJour;Ernest Sosa.
(2003)

609 Citations

A Companion to Epistemology

Jonathan Dancy;Jonathan Dancy;Ernest Sosa.
(1992)

567 Citations

Judgment and Agency

Ernest Sosa.
(2015)

469 Citations

Knowing Full Well

Ernest Sosa.
(2011)

469 Citations

Experimental philosophy and philosophical intuition

Ernest Sosa.
Philosophical Studies (2007)

386 Citations

Contemporary Debates in Epistemology

Matthias Steup;Ernest Sosa.
(2005)

354 Citations

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