Abstract
Comment: on Sosa’s telic epistemology
Highlights
The particular type of telic virtue epistemology that Sosa (2021) succinctly presents is the result of a multi-decade long effort he underwent to build an elegant epistemology that perhaps could be fit to face both more traditional justification-related tasks, like responding to Gettier-like cases, and more specific problems, such as the problem of explaining the value of the output of a well-oiled belief formation process over the accurate outputs stemming from luck
The way we walk this path, he argues in this paper, must be the main object of epistemic evaluation
The main task of epistemic normativity is to assess the quality of a particular type of action or performance, the action of forming a belief that aims to truth and, hopefully, gets to it competently and – it gets to the truth as a consequence of the competent performance
Summary
The particular type of telic virtue epistemology that Sosa (2021) succinctly presents is the result of a multi-decade long effort he underwent to build an elegant epistemology that perhaps could be fit to face both more traditional justification-related tasks, like responding to Gettier-like cases, and more specific problems, such as the problem of explaining the value of the output of a well-oiled belief formation process over the accurate outputs stemming from luck (either good or bad luck). If beliefs are nothing more than attempts to get it right, we should, according to this view, evaluate the quality of such attempt, which, in turn, will reveal the quality of the resulting state (whatever this may be called).
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