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According to Wikipedia, Ernest Sosa is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. Since 2007 he has been Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, but he spent most of his career at Brown University.

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A Virtue Epistemology (2007) (928)
Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1993) (794)
How to Defeat Opposition to Moore (1999) (682)
Judgment and Agency (2015) (421)
The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge (1980) (382)
Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2005) (309)
A Companion to Epistemology (1992) (302)
Experimental philosophy and philosophical intuition (2007) (291)
The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999) (289)
Reflective Knowledge: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge (2009) (263)
The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation (1993) (235)
The Epistemology of Testimony (2006) (188)
Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (2003) (152)
Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology (1991) (143)
HOW COMPETENCE MATTERS IN EPISTEMOLOGY (2010) (129)
Reflective Knowledge in the Best Circles (1997) (127)
Causation and conditionals (1975) (119)
Knowing Full Well (2011) (119)
How Must Knowledge Be Modally Related to What Is Known (1999) (117)
Supervenience and mind: “Strong” and “global” supervenience revisited (1987) (108)
The Place of Truth in Epistemology (2010) (108)
Skepticism and Contextualism (2000) (103)
A Defense of the Use of Intuitions in Philosophy (2009) (99)
Mind‐Body Interaction and Supervenient Causation (1984) (94)
A Companion to Metaphysics (1995) (92)
Propositional Attitudes de Dictu and De Re (1970) (86)
On the Logic of "Intrinsically Better" (1966) (84)
Knowledge and Justification (2018) (82)
Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue (1985) (82)
Putnam's Pragmatic Realism (1993) (80)
A Virtue Epistemology: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume I (2007) (75)
The Epistemology of Disagreement (2011) (75)
Knowledge in perspective: THEORIES OF JUSTIFICATION (1991) (67)
Proper Functionalism and Virtue Epistemology@@@Warrant: The Current Debate.@@@Warrant and Proper Function. (1993) (66)
INTUITIONS: THEIR NATURE AND EPISTEMIC EFFICACY (2007) (65)
Apt belief and reflective knowledge (2007) (65)
Epistemology : an anthology (2000) (63)
Knowledge in perspective: Reliabilism and intellectual virtue (1991) (62)
Subjects Among Other Things (1987) (61)
On Knowledge and Context (1986) (61)
Knowing full well: the normativity of beliefs as performances (2009) (58)
Beyond Scepticism, to the Best of our Knowledge (1988) (58)
Tracking, Competence, and Knowledge (2005) (55)
HOW TO RESOLVE THE PYRRHONIAN PROBLEMATIC: A LESSON FROM DESCARTES (1997) (54)
Essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley (1987) (53)
Rational intuition: Bealer on its nature and epistemic status (1996) (53)
The epistemology of perception (2011) (46)
Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge (1996) (46)
The Opened Curtain: A U.s.-soviet Philosophy Summit (1991) (45)
Intrinsic preferability and the problem of supererogation (1966) (42)
Postscripts on supervenience (1993) (42)
Metaphysics: An Anthology (1999) (39)
The foundations of foundationalism (1980) (39)
The Raft and the Pyramid (2020) (38)
Dreams and Philosophy (2007) (35)
Relevant Alternatives, Contextualism Included (2004) (35)
Supervenience and mind: Dretske on how reasons explain behavior (1993) (34)
Value matters in epistemology (2010) (32)
Epistemology : the classic readings (1999) (31)
Knowledge: Instrumental and Testimonial (2006) (28)
Knowledge in perspective: Intellectual virtue in perspective (1991) (28)
Supervenience and mind: Postscripts on mental causation (1993) (27)
The Place of Reasons in Epistemology (2018) (27)
Intuitions and meaning divergence (2010) (26)
Human Knowledge, Animal and Reflective (2001) (26)
Epistemic Explanations (2021) (26)
What is a Logical Constant (1974) (25)
Goldman’s Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology (2001) (22)
Analytic philosophy : an anthology (2001) (21)
Propositions and Indexical Attitudes (1983) (21)
Mind-Body Interaction and Supervenient Causation (1988) (20)
The coherence of virtue and the virtue of coherence (1985) (19)
Supervenience and mind: The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation (1993) (19)
The Truth of Modest Realism (1993) (18)
The analysis of 'knowledge that p' (1964) (18)
Can There Be a Discipline of Philosophy? And Can It Be Founded on Intuitions? (2011) (17)
Values and the Future, the Impact of Technological Change on American Values Edited by Kurt Baier and Nicholas Rescher (1971) (17)
Testimony and Coherence (1994) (17)
Intuitions and Truth (2006) (16)
Replies to commentators on A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007) (2009) (16)
Cognition, Agency and Rationality (1999) (16)
Why Safety Doesn't save Closure (2012) (16)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Situations Against Virtues: The Situationist Attack on Virtue Theory (2009) (15)
Blackwell's A Companion to Epistemology (1992) (15)
Mythology of the Given (2009) (15)
Epistemic Explanations: A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains (2021) (14)
Donald Davidson: Knowledge of Self, Others, and World (2003) (14)
Supervenience and mind: Events as property exemplifications (1993) (14)
Supervenience and mind: Supervenience as a philosophical concept (1993) (14)
Knowledge in Context, Skepticism in Doubt: The Virtue of Our Faculties (1988) (13)
Modal and other a priori epistemology : How can we know what is possible and what impossible? (2000) (13)
Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy: The Turn Toward Virtue (2015) (13)
Nature unmirrored, epistemology naturalized (1983) (13)
Reflective Knowledge (2019) (13)
Sosa on Propositional Attitudes De Dicto and De Re: Rejoinder to Hintikka (1971) (12)
The Status of Becoming: What Is Happening Now? (1979) (12)
The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher : discussion and replies (1982) (12)
Knowledge in perspective: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE IN PERSPECTIVE: THE VIEW DEVELOPED (1991) (12)
A companion to epistemology, second edition (2010) (11)
Fregean Reference Defended (1995) (11)
Meinong ’ s Theory of Objects (11)
Knowledge in perspective: The raft and the pyramid: coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge (1991) (11)
Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics (2009) (10)
Epistemology, Realism, and Truth: The First Philosophical Perspectives Lecture (1993) (10)
Timothy Williamson's Knowledge and its Limits (2009) (10)
Two Conceptions of Knowledge (1970) (10)
VARIETIES OF CAUSATION (1980) (10)
Supervenience and mind: Concepts of supervenience (1993) (9)
The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher (1979) (9)
Knowledge in perspective: Knowledge and intellectual virtue (1991) (9)
A Companion to Metaphysics: Second Edition (2009) (8)
Dreaming, Philosophical Issues (2009) (8)
Equilibrium in Coherence (1989) (8)
Propositional knowledge (1969) (8)
Perspectives in virtue epistemology: A response to Dancy and Bonjour (1995) (8)
Virtue Epistemology: Character versus Competence (2015) (8)
Serious Philosophy and Freedom of Spirit (1987) (7)
Replies to Brown, Pritchard and Conee (2009) (7)
Descartes and Virtue Epistemology (2012) (7)
Can There Be a Discipline of Philosophy (2013) (7)
On Practical Inference and the Logic of Imperatives (2008) (7)
Supervenience and mind: The myth of nonreductive materialism (1993) (7)
Generic Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology (1992) (7)
Social, Political and Legal Philosophy (2001) (6)
Virtue Perspectivism: A Response to Foley and Fumerton (1994) (6)
P.F. Strawson's epistemological naturalism (1998) (6)
Epistemic Agency and Judgment (2014) (6)
Intuitions and Foundations (2013) (5)
Supervenience and mind: Psychophysical supervenience (1993) (5)
Epistemic Competence and Judgment (2016) (5)
Suspension as Spandrel (2019) (5)
The Logic of Imperatives1 (2008) (5)
Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide (2017) (5)
Metaphysics of Epistemology (2007) (5)
Between Internalism and Externalism (1991) (4)
Ontology, Understanding, and the A Priori (2003) (4)
Are Humans Rational (1999) (4)
Knowledge, Belief, and Character: Readings in Contemporary Virtue Epistemology (2000) (4)
Confucius on Knowledge (2015) (4)
Mill's Utilitarianism : text and criticism (1969) (4)
Supervenience and mind: Supervenience for multiple domains (1993) (4)
The Unity of Action, Perception, and Knowledge (2015) (4)
MIND-WORLD RELATIONS (2015) (4)
On our knowledge of matters of fact (1974) (4)
II—Ernest Sosa: Knowledge, Animal and Reflective: A Reply to Michael Williams (2003) (4)
Man The Rational Animal? (2000) (4)
Boghossian’s Fear of Knowledge (2008) (4)
Supervenience and mind: Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation (1993) (4)
A Rejoinder on Actions and De Re Belief (1981) (4)
Is Color Psychological or Biological? Or Both? (1996) (3)
Skepticism and Perceptual Knowledge (2008) (3)
Circularity and epistemic priority (2004) (3)
Skepticism and Our Knowledge Circle (1993) (3)
Interdisciplinary core philosophy (2008) (3)
Knowledge in perspective: Theories of justification: old doctrines newly defended (1991) (3)
Moral Relativism, Cognitivism and Defeasible Rules (1994) (3)
Replies to comments on Judgment and Agency (2017) (3)
Water, Drink, and "Moral Kinds" (1997) (3)
The metaphysical gettier problem and the X-Phi critique (2017) (3)
Virtue Theory against Situationism (2017) (3)
Alvin Plantinga on Theism, Naturalism, and Rationality (2018) (2)
Chisholm's Epistemic Principles (2003) (2)
Methodology and apt belief (1988) (2)
Imperatives and referential opacity (1966) (2)
Philosophical Issues, Skepticism (2000) (2)
Reflection and Security (2019) (2)
Quantifiers, Beliefs, and Sellars (1969) (2)
Supervenience and mind: Psychophysical laws (1993) (2)
Symposium: Descartes' Ontological Argument (1969) (2)
Two False Dichotomies (2006) (2)
Telic Virtue Epistemology (2018) (2)
Internal Foundations or Eaternal Virtues? (2006) (2)
Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm. (1985) (2)
Animal Versus Reflective Orders of Epistemic Competence (2019) (2)
How Our Knowledge Squares with Skeptical Intuitions Despite the Circle (2016) (2)
Supervenience and mind: Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event (1993) (2)
PYRRHONIAN SKEPTICISM AND HUMAN AGENCY (2013) (2)
Moore's Proof (2009) (2)
On Metaphysical Analysis (2015) (2)
Realism and Relativism (2002) (2)
Responses to four critics (2013) (2)
More on Fregean Reference (1995) (2)
The Relevance of Moore and Wittgenstein (2021) (2)
VI. THE SEMANTICS OF IMPERATIVES (2016) (2)
Alvin Plantinga: Natural Theology and Naturalist Atheology: Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (2007) (2)
Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self (2005) (2)
Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (1982) (2)
Philosophical Issues, Epistemology (2004) (1)
Firsthand Knowledge and Understanding (2019) (1)
Davidson's Epistemology (2003) (1)
Philosophical Issues, Realism and Relativism (2003) (1)
Consciousness and Self-Knowledge (2004) (1)
Reflective Knowledge and Its Importance (2014) (1)
PROCESS RELIABILISM AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY (2016) (1)
Scriven on Causation as Explanation (1981) (1)
Cognition, agency and rationality : proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (1999) (1)
The essentials of persons (2005) (1)
Presuppositions of empirical knowledge (1986) (1)
Knowledge in perspective: The coherence of virtue and the virtue of coherence (1991) (1)
Epistemology: Does it Depend on Independence? (2003) (1)
Knowledge in perspective: Equilibrium in coherence? (1991) (1)
Virtue Epistemology and a Theory of Competence (2018) (1)
Philosophical Issues, the Epistemology of Perception (2011) (1)
Skepticism and Virtue Epistemology (2012) (1)
Philosophical Issues, Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (2003) (1)
Supervenience and mind: Noncausal connections (1993) (1)
Metaphysics: An Anthology, 2nd Edition (2011) (1)
Skill and Knowledge (2020) (1)
On the Nature and Objects of Knowledge (1972) (1)
Sources and Deliverances (2007) (1)
Thought, Inference, and Knowledge: Gilbert Harman's Thought@@@Thought (1977) (1)
Experience and Intentionality (1986) (1)
Knowledge as Action (2018) (1)
Descartes’s Pyrrhonian Virtue Epistemology (2015) (1)
Imagery and Imagination: Sensory Images and Fictional Characters (1985) (1)
Knowledge in perspective: How do you know? (1991) (1)
Knowledge and Time (2014) (1)
The Epistemology of Introspection (2012) (1)
Replies to Ram Neta, James Van Cleve, and Crispin Wright for a book symposium on reflective knowledge (OUP, 2009) (2011) (1)
Replies to My Critics (2010) (1)
RESPONSES TO NUCCETELLI, LEMOS, AND BUENO (2009) (1)
Behavior, theories, and the inner (1984) (1)
Mind–World Relations (2018) (0)
More on Suspension (2021) (0)
Index (2010) (0)
Nature Unmirrored, Epistemology Naturalized in Justification and Empirical Knowledge. (1983) (0)
Dream Skepticism (2018) (0)
Insight and Understanding (2021) (0)
Knowledge, Time, and Negligence (2018) (0)
Professor Malcolm on “Scientific Materialism and the Identity Theory” (1965) (0)
Knowledge , Re fl ection , and Action 1 (0)
Replies (2011) (0)
Skepticism and Default Assumptions in advance (2021) (0)
Philosophy and Religious Studies Program Review. (1989) (0)
Resumen de A Virtue Epistemology (2009) (0)
Précis of A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007) (2009) (0)
Confucius on Knowledge (2015) (0)
Knowledge, Reﬂection, and Action (2015) (0)
Epistemology (2018) (0)
It’s about reality, not language (1999) (0)
1. Authored works (2004) (0)
Philosophy of mind (2010) (0)
Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act (1976): Correspondence 05 (1985) (0)
Knowledge and Action (2015) (0)
Grades of Knowledge (2021) (0)
Varieties and Levels of Knowledge (2018) (0)
The Place of Suspension and Problems for Evidentialism (2021) (0)
Social Roots of Human Knowledge (2014) (0)
Chapter six. Varieties and Levels of Knowledge (2017) (0)
Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism: why the problem applies to process reliabilism, but not to virtue reliabilism (2021) (0)
Knowledge, Default, and Skepticism (2020) (0)
Chapter one. Descartes’s Pyrrhonian Virtue Epistemology (2017) (0)
Chapter eight. Epistemic Circularity (2010) (0)
Chapter one. Knowing Full Well (2010) (0)
Précis of A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007) (2009) (0)
Virtue, Luck, and Credit (2007) (0)
Gnoseology and Intellectual Ethics (2021) (0)
Easy Knowledge and the Criterion (2009) (0)
Chapter two. Dream Skepticism (2017) (0)
Two Forms of Virtue Epistemology (2018) (0)
Regress Skepticism (2018) (0)
Knowledge: What It Is and How We Might Have It (2018) (0)
Responses to four critics (2013) (0)
On Reflective Knowledge: replies to Battaly and Reed (2012) (0)
Chapter ten. Knowledge, Time, and Negligence (2017) (0)
Philosophical Issues: Epistemic Agency (2013) (0)
Can the Skeptic Be Refuted (2014) (0)
A Better Virtue Epistemology Further Developed (2015) (0)
On “Knowledge To” and Wang Yangming (2023) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Philosophy of Mind (2003) (0)
Franz Brentano , Sensory and Noetic Consciousness . Reviewed by (1984) (0)
BOOK SYMPOSIUM ON ERNEST SOSA’S EPISTEMIC EXPLANATIONS (2021) (0)
The heart of Berkeley's metaphysics? a reply to ERNEST SOSA (2016) (0)
The Value of Human Knowledge (2018) (0)
The Problem of the Criterion (2007) (0)
Chapter five. Contextualism (2010) (0)
Objections and Replies, with a Methodological Afterthought (2015) (0)
Précis of Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011) (2013) (0)
Chapter seven. Knowledge: Instrumental and Testimonial (2010) (0)
Symposium Papers, Comments and an Abstract: Neither Body Nor Soul. Then What? And What Does It Matter? (1988) (0)
Chapter seven. The Value of Human Knowledge (2017) (0)
Contents and Objects of Experience (1988) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Metaethics (2009) (0)
Chapter nine. Two Forms of Virtue Epistemology (2017) (0)
On Epistemic Explanations: Response to Two Critics (2022) (0)
Précis of Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011) (2013) (0)
Quality and Concept by George Bealer (1985) (0)
On Veritism. Pritchard’s Defense (2021) (0)
Chapter three. Value Matters in Epistemology (2010) (0)
Roderick Milton Chisholm (1916-1999) (1999) (0)
A Companion to Metaphysics. (1996) (0)
Curran, Edward: Confirmation Hearing (1985): Correspondence 05 (1985) (0)
Necessity, the a priori, and unexpressible statements (1965) (0)
Epistemology today: A perspective in retrospect (1981) (0)
Descartes’s Epistemology* (2014) (0)
Dreams and Skeptics (2005) (0)
On the “content” and “relevance” of information-theoretic epistemology (1983) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: Methodology and apt belief (1991) (0)
Transcendental and Circular Reasoning (2012) (0)
The Place of Reasons in Epistemology kurt sylvan and (2013) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Normativity (2006) (0)
Epistemological Naturalism: Hume, Wittgenstein, and Strawson (2009) (0)
Chapter two. Epistemic Agency (2010) (0)
Chapter twelve. Virtue Epistemology and a Theory of Competence (2017) (0)
When and How Is Suspension Apt? (2021) (0)
Further Reading Related to This Book (2017) (0)
Philosophical Skepticism and Externalist Epistemology (2009) (0)
Knowledge, Reflection, and Action (2015) (0)
Chapter thirteen. Knowledge and Justification (2017) (0)
Chapter four. Knowledge: What It Is and How We Might Have It (2017) (0)
Philosophical Issues: Epistemic Agency, Volume 23 (2013) (0)
Suspension, Confidence, and Inquiry (2021) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: On our knowledge of matters of fact (1991) (0)
G. E. Moore (1873–1958) (2007) (0)
Metaphysics from A to Z (2009) (0)
Safety , Virtue , Scepticism : Remarks on Sosa (2016) (0)
Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Human Agency (2019) (0)
Rationality & Psychology 1 (0)
Competence and Justification (2021) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: The analysis of “knowledge that p” (1991) (0)
Chapter Five. Knowledge as Action (2017) (0)
Chapter four. Three Views of Human Knowledge (2010) (0)
Reid's Common Sense (2009) (0)
Epistemology Naturalized, Davidson's Way (2009) (0)
Chapter six. Propositional Experience (2010) (0)
Replies to comments on Judgment and Agency (2016) (0)
Chapter three. Regress Skepticism (2017) (0)
Summary of Reflective Knowledge (2011) (0)
Articles on Aristotle and Hylomorphism (1995) (0)
John Greco’s The Transmission of Knowledge (2022) (0)
EXTERNAL REALISM AND PHILOSOPHY IN TRANSITION (1991) (0)
CREDIT THEORIES AND THE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE (2011) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: Introduction: back to basics (1991) (0)
The Skeptic’s Appeal (2019) (0)
Critical Notice (2010) (0)
Chapter eight. Mind–World Relations (2017) (0)
Preface for Readers and Instructors (2017) (0)
Replies to Richard Fumerton, John Greco, and Michael Williams (2011) (0)
Intentional Action and Judgment (2015) (0)
On Reflective Knowledge: replies to Battaly and Reed (2011) (0)
Chapter eleven. Virtue Theory against Situationism (2017) (0)
Duncan Pritchard: Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (2017) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: Epistemology today: a perspective in retrospect (1991) (0)

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