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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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Published Papers

A Virtue Epistemology (2007) (832)
Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1993) (743)
How to Defeat Opposition to Moore (1999) (592)
The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge (1980) (363)
Judgment and Agency (2015) (346)
Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2005) (296)
A Companion to Epistemology (1992) (294)
Experimental philosophy and philosophical intuition (2007) (271)
The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999) (269)
Reflective Knowledge: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge (2009) (248)
The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation (1993) (219)
The Epistemology of Testimony (2006) (184)
Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology (1991) (144)
Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (2003) (136)
Knowing Full Well (2011) (120)
Knowledge and Justification (2018) (119)
Reflective Knowledge in the Best Circles (1997) (118)
Causation and conditionals (1975) (116)
Supervenience and mind: “Strong” and “global” supervenience revisited (1987) (108)
Skepticism and Contextualism (2000) (105)
How Must Knowledge Be Modally Related to What Is Known (1999) (102)
HOW COMPETENCE MATTERS IN EPISTEMOLOGY (2010) (102)
The Place of Truth in Epistemology (2010) (99)
A Companion to Metaphysics (1995) (91)
A Defense of the Use of Intuitions in Philosophy (2009) (87)
Mind‐Body Interaction and Supervenient Causation (1984) (86)
Propositional Attitudes de Dictu and De Re (1970) (79)
On the Logic of "Intrinsically Better" (1966) (78)
Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue (1985) (77)
Putnam's Pragmatic Realism (1993) (77)
The Epistemology of Disagreement (2011) (73)
Knowledge in perspective: THEORIES OF JUSTIFICATION (1991) (69)
Knowledge in perspective: Reliabilism and intellectual virtue (1991) (65)
Epistemology : an anthology (2000) (63)
Apt belief and reflective knowledge (2007) (63)
A Virtue Epistemology: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume I (2007) (61)
Proper Functionalism and Virtue Epistemology@@@Warrant: The Current Debate.@@@Warrant and Proper Function. (1993) (59)
Subjects Among Other Things (1987) (57)
Beyond Scepticism, to the Best of our Knowledge (1988) (56)
INTUITIONS: THEIR NATURE AND EPISTEMIC EFFICACY (2007) (56)
Essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley (1987) (53)
HOW TO RESOLVE THE PYRRHONIAN PROBLEMATIC: A LESSON FROM DESCARTES (1997) (51)
Rational intuition: Bealer on its nature and epistemic status (1996) (49)
Knowing full well: the normativity of beliefs as performances (2009) (48)
Tracking, Competence, and Knowledge (2005) (46)
The Opened Curtain: A U.s.-soviet Philosophy Summit (1991) (45)
On Knowledge and Context (1986) (45)
Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge (1996) (40)
Intrinsic preferability and the problem of supererogation (1966) (39)
Metaphysics: An Anthology (1999) (39)
Postscripts on supervenience (1993) (38)
The foundations of foundationalism (1980) (37)
The Raft and the Pyramid (2020) (37)
The epistemology of perception (2011) (33)
Relevant Alternatives, Contextualism Included (2004) (33)
Epistemology : the classic readings (1999) (31)
Supervenience and mind: Dretske on how reasons explain behavior (1993) (30)
Dreams and Philosophy (2007) (29)
Knowledge in perspective: Intellectual virtue in perspective (1991) (28)
Supervenience and mind: Postscripts on mental causation (1993) (27)
Knowledge: Instrumental and Testimonial (2006) (26)
Value matters in epistemology (2010) (26)
What is a Logical Constant (1974) (25)
Human Knowledge, Animal and Reflective (2001) (24)
Intuitions and meaning divergence (2010) (23)
The Place of Reasons in Epistemology (2018) (23)
Analytic philosophy : an anthology (2001) (21)
Propositions and Indexical Attitudes (1983) (21)
Supervenience and mind: The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation (1993) (19)
The coherence of virtue and the virtue of coherence (1985) (18)
Mind-Body Interaction and Supervenient Causation (1988) (18)
The Truth of Modest Realism (1993) (17)
Goldman’s Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology (2001) (17)
Testimony and Coherence (1994) (16)
Intuitions and Truth (2006) (16)
Values and the Future, the Impact of Technological Change on American Values Edited by Kurt Baier and Nicholas Rescher (1971) (16)
Cognition, Agency and Rationality (1999) (16)
Can There Be a Discipline of Philosophy? And Can It Be Founded on Intuitions? (2011) (16)
The analysis of 'knowledge that p' (1964) (15)
Replies to commentators on A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007) (2009) (15)
Supervenience and mind: Events as property exemplifications (1993) (14)
Mythology of the Given (2009) (14)
Blackwell's A Companion to Epistemology (1992) (14)
Donald Davidson: Knowledge of Self, Others, and World (2003) (14)
Nature unmirrored, epistemology naturalized (1983) (14)
Supervenience and mind: Supervenience as a philosophical concept (1993) (14)
Modal and other a priori epistemology : How can we know what is possible and what impossible? (2000) (13)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Situations Against Virtues: The Situationist Attack on Virtue Theory (2009) (13)
Sosa on Propositional Attitudes De Dicto and De Re: Rejoinder to Hintikka (1971) (13)
A companion to epistemology, second edition (2010) (12)
The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher : discussion and replies (1982) (12)
VARIETIES OF CAUSATION (1980) (11)
Knowledge in perspective: The raft and the pyramid: coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge (1991) (11)
The Status of Becoming: What Is Happening Now? (1979) (11)
Fregean Reference Defended (1995) (11)
Knowledge in Context, Skepticism in Doubt: The Virtue of Our Faculties (1988) (10)
Two Conceptions of Knowledge (1970) (10)
Reflective Knowledge (2019) (10)
Why Safety Doesn't save Closure (2012) (10)
Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy: The Turn Toward Virtue (2015) (10)
Meinong ’ s Theory of Objects (10)
The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher (1979) (9)
Epistemology, Realism, and Truth: The First Philosophical Perspectives Lecture (1993) (9)
Knowledge in perspective: Knowledge and intellectual virtue (1991) (9)
Supervenience and mind: Concepts of supervenience (1993) (9)
Timothy Williamson's Knowledge and its Limits (2009) (9)
A Companion to Metaphysics: Second Edition (2009) (8)
Perspectives in virtue epistemology: A response to Dancy and Bonjour (1995) (8)
Equilibrium in Coherence (1989) (8)
Propositional knowledge (1969) (8)
Serious Philosophy and Freedom of Spirit (1987) (7)
Supervenience and mind: The myth of nonreductive materialism (1993) (7)
Dreaming, Philosophical Issues (2009) (7)
Knowledge in perspective: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE IN PERSPECTIVE: THE VIEW DEVELOPED (1991) (6)
Generic Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology (1992) (6)
Virtue Epistemology: Character versus Competence (2015) (6)
Replies to Brown, Pritchard and Conee (2009) (6)
Descartes and Virtue Epistemology (2012) (6)
Virtue Perspectivism: A Response to Foley and Fumerton (1994) (6)
On Practical Inference and the Logic of Imperatives (2008) (6)
Can There Be a Discipline of Philosophy (2013) (6)
Epistemic Explanations (2021) (6)
Social, Political and Legal Philosophy (2001) (6)
Metaphysics of Epistemology (2007) (5)
Intuitions and Foundations (2013) (5)
P.F. Strawson's epistemological naturalism (1998) (5)
Epistemic Explanations: A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains (2021) (5)
Supervenience and mind: Psychophysical supervenience (1993) (5)
The Logic of Imperatives1 (2008) (5)
Are Humans Rational (1999) (4)
Mill's Utilitarianism : text and criticism (1969) (4)
Suspension as Spandrel (2019) (4)
On our knowledge of matters of fact (1974) (4)
Supervenience and mind: Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation (1993) (4)
Between Internalism and Externalism (1991) (4)
II—Ernest Sosa: Knowledge, Animal and Reflective: A Reply to Michael Williams (2003) (4)
The Unity of Action, Perception, and Knowledge (2015) (4)
Knowledge, Belief, and Character: Readings in Contemporary Virtue Epistemology (2000) (4)
Epistemic Agency and Judgment (2014) (4)
Supervenience and mind: Supervenience for multiple domains (1993) (4)
Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide (2017) (4)
A Rejoinder on Actions and De Re Belief (1981) (4)
Ontology, Understanding, and the A Priori (2003) (4)
Man The Rational Animal? (2000) (4)
Skepticism and Perceptual Knowledge (2008) (3)
Interdisciplinary core philosophy (2008) (3)
Circularity and epistemic priority (2004) (3)
Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics (2009) (3)
Epistemic Competence and Judgment (2016) (3)
Water, Drink, and "Moral Kinds" (1997) (3)
Knowledge in perspective: Theories of justification: old doctrines newly defended (1991) (3)
Moral Relativism, Cognitivism and Defeasible Rules (1994) (3)
Boghossian’s Fear of Knowledge (2008) (3)
MIND-WORLD RELATIONS (2015) (3)
Skepticism and Our Knowledge Circle (1993) (3)
Imperatives and referential opacity (1966) (2)
VI. THE SEMANTICS OF IMPERATIVES (2016) (2)
Internal Foundations or Eaternal Virtues? (2006) (2)
The Relevance of Moore and Wittgenstein (2021) (2)
Confucius on Knowledge (2015) (2)
Two False Dichotomies (2006) (2)
Animal Versus Reflective Orders of Epistemic Competence (2019) (2)
Realism and Relativism (2002) (2)
Alvin Plantinga: Natural Theology and Naturalist Atheology: Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (2007) (2)
On Metaphysical Analysis (2015) (2)
Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm. (1985) (2)
Replies to comments on Judgment and Agency (2017) (2)
Is Color Psychological or Biological? Or Both? (1996) (2)
More on Fregean Reference (1995) (2)
Responses to four critics (2013) (2)
Philosophical Issues, Skepticism (2000) (2)
The metaphysical gettier problem and the X-Phi critique (2017) (2)
Moore's Proof (2009) (2)
Supervenience and mind: Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event (1993) (2)
Symposium: Descartes' Ontological Argument (1969) (2)
Supervenience and mind: Psychophysical laws (1993) (2)
Quantifiers, Beliefs, and Sellars (1969) (2)
Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self (2005) (2)
Virtue Theory against Situationism (2017) (2)
Chisholm's Epistemic Principles (2003) (2)
Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (1982) (2)
How Our Knowledge Squares with Skeptical Intuitions Despite the Circle (2016) (2)
Reflection and Security (2019) (2)
PYRRHONIAN SKEPTICISM AND HUMAN AGENCY (2013) (2)
Methodology and apt belief (1988) (2)
Firsthand Knowledge and Understanding (2019) (1)
Presuppositions of empirical knowledge (1986) (1)
Knowledge and Time (2014) (1)
Scriven on Causation as Explanation (1981) (1)
Reflective Knowledge and Its Importance (2014) (1)
Metaphysics: An Anthology, 2nd Edition (2011) (1)
Cognition, agency and rationality : proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (1999) (1)
Replies to My Critics (2010) (1)
The Epistemology of Introspection (2012) (1)
Alvin Plantinga on Theism, Naturalism, and Rationality (2018) (1)
Imagery and Imagination: Sensory Images and Fictional Characters (1985) (1)
Virtue Epistemology and a Theory of Competence (2018) (1)
Behavior, theories, and the inner (1984) (1)
PROCESS RELIABILISM AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY (2016) (1)
Sources and Deliverances (2007) (1)
Consciousness and Self-Knowledge (2004) (1)
Thought, Inference, and Knowledge: Gilbert Harman's Thought@@@Thought (1977) (1)
The essentials of persons (2005) (1)
Philosophical Issues, Epistemology (2004) (1)
Knowledge in perspective: How do you know? (1991) (1)
Supervenience and mind: Noncausal connections (1993) (1)
On the Nature and Objects of Knowledge (1972) (1)
Experience and Intentionality (1986) (1)
Skill and Knowledge (2020) (1)
Knowledge in perspective: The coherence of virtue and the virtue of coherence (1991) (1)
Knowledge in perspective: Equilibrium in coherence? (1991) (1)
Skepticism and Virtue Epistemology (2012) (1)
RESPONSES TO NUCCETELLI, LEMOS, AND BUENO (2009) (1)
Descartes’s Pyrrhonian Virtue Epistemology (2015) (1)
Davidson's Epistemology (2003) (1)
Replies to Ram Neta, James Van Cleve, and Crispin Wright for a book symposium on reflective knowledge (OUP, 2009) (2011) (1)
Professor Malcolm on “Scientific Materialism and the Identity Theory” (1965) (0)
John Greco’s The Transmission of Knowledge (2022) (0)
Dreams and Skeptics (2005) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: Introduction: back to basics (1991) (0)
A Better Virtue Epistemology Further Developed (2015) (0)
More on Suspension (2021) (0)
Chapter ten. Knowledge, Time, and Negligence (2017) (0)
Philosophical Issues: Epistemic Agency, Volume 23 (2013) (0)
Chapter eight. Epistemic Circularity (2010) (0)
Articles on Aristotle and Hylomorphism (1995) (0)
Can the Skeptic Be Refuted (2014) (0)
Telic Virtue Epistemology (2018) (0)
Chapter two. Epistemic Agency (2010) (0)
Duncan Pritchard: Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (2017) (0)
Gnoseology and Intellectual Ethics (2021) (0)
Chapter Five. Knowledge as Action (2017) (0)
Regress Skepticism (2018) (0)
Index (2010) (0)
Symposium Papers, Comments and an Abstract: Neither Body Nor Soul. Then What? And What Does It Matter? (1988) (0)
Knowledge, Reflection, and Action (2015) (0)
It’s about reality, not language (1999) (0)
Chapter eleven. Virtue Theory against Situationism (2017) (0)
Roderick Milton Chisholm (1916-1999) (1999) (0)
Chapter twelve. Virtue Epistemology and a Theory of Competence (2017) (0)
Social Roots of Human Knowledge (2014) (0)
Transcendental and Circular Reasoning (2012) (0)
Summary of Reflective Knowledge (2011) (0)
Chapter one. Knowing Full Well (2010) (0)
Further Reading Related to This Book (2017) (0)
Précis of A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007) (2009) (0)
Nature Unmirrored, Epistemology Naturalized in Justification and Empirical Knowledge. (1983) (0)
Curran, Edward: Confirmation Hearing (1985): Correspondence 05 (1985) (0)
Replies (2011) (0)
Virtue, Luck, and Credit (2007) (0)
Necessity, the a priori, and unexpressible statements (1965) (0)
Knowledge , Re fl ection , and Action 1 (0)
CREDIT THEORIES AND THE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE (2011) (0)
The heart of Berkeley's metaphysics? a reply to ERNEST SOSA (2016) (0)
Précis of A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007) (2009) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: Epistemology today: a perspective in retrospect (1991) (0)
Skepticism and Default Assumptions in advance (2021) (0)
Chapter seven. The Value of Human Knowledge (2017) (0)
Chapter three. Regress Skepticism (2017) (0)
Objections and Replies, with a Methodological Afterthought (2015) (0)
Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism: why the problem applies to process reliabilism, but not to virtue reliabilism (2021) (0)
Easy Knowledge and the Criterion (2009) (0)
Chapter two. Dream Skepticism (2017) (0)
Chapter six. Propositional Experience (2010) (0)
On Veritism. Pritchard’s Defense (2021) (0)
Two Forms of Virtue Epistemology (2018) (0)
Varieties and Levels of Knowledge (2018) (0)
Grades of Knowledge (2021) (0)
Franz Brentano , Sensory and Noetic Consciousness . Reviewed by (1984) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Normativity (2006) (0)
Chapter seven. Knowledge: Instrumental and Testimonial (2010) (0)
Critical Notice (2010) (0)
Mind–World Relations (2018) (0)
Suspension, Confidence, and Inquiry (2021) (0)
Knowledge and Action (2015) (0)
Rationality & Psychology 1 (0)
Philosophy and Religious Studies Program Review. (1989) (0)
Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act (1976): Correspondence 05 (1985) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: On our knowledge of matters of fact (1991) (0)
Epistemology Naturalized, Davidson's Way (2009) (0)
Knowledge as Action (2018) (0)
Dream Skepticism (2018) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Philosophy of Mind (2003) (0)
Reid's Common Sense (2009) (0)
Chapter one. Descartes’s Pyrrhonian Virtue Epistemology (2017) (0)
The Place of Suspension and Problems for Evidentialism (2021) (0)
EXTERNAL REALISM AND PHILOSOPHY IN TRANSITION (1991) (0)
Preface for Readers and Instructors (2017) (0)
Quality and Concept by George Bealer (1985) (0)
BOOK SYMPOSIUM ON ERNEST SOSA’S EPISTEMIC EXPLANATIONS (2021) (0)
Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Human Agency (2019) (0)
Philosophical Issues: Epistemic Agency (2013) (0)
Competence and Justification (2021) (0)
Knowledge, Time, and Negligence (2018) (0)
Intentional Action and Judgment (2015) (0)
Philosophy of mind (2010) (0)
A Companion to Metaphysics. (1996) (0)
Epistemology (2018) (0)
G. E. Moore (1873–1958) (2007) (0)
Tipos de causalidad (1978) (0)
Knowledge, Default, and Skepticism (2020) (0)
Safety , Virtue , Scepticism : Remarks on Sosa (2016) (0)
Epistemological Naturalism: Hume, Wittgenstein, and Strawson (2009) (0)
Knowledge, Reﬂection, and Action (2015) (0)
The Place of Reasons in Epistemology kurt sylvan and (2013) (0)
Chapter three. Value Matters in Epistemology (2010) (0)
Contents and Objects of Experience (1988) (0)
1. Authored works (2004) (0)
Insight and Understanding (2021) (0)
Epistemology today: A perspective in retrospect (1981) (0)
On the “content” and “relevance” of information-theoretic epistemology (1983) (0)
Chapter nine. Two Forms of Virtue Epistemology (2017) (0)
Philosophical Skepticism and Externalist Epistemology (2009) (0)
Metaphysics from A to Z (2009) (0)
Knowledge: What It Is and How We Might Have It (2018) (0)
Resumen de A Virtue Epistemology (2009) (0)
Chapter eight. Mind–World Relations (2017) (0)
Epistemology: Does it Depend on Independence? (2003) (0)
On Reflective Knowledge: replies to Battaly and Reed (2012) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (2003) (0)
Chapter five. Contextualism (2010) (0)
Chapter six. Varieties and Levels of Knowledge (2017) (0)
Philosophical Issues, the Epistemology of Perception (2011) (0)
Précis of Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011) (2013) (0)
Descartes’s Epistemology* (2014) (0)
Replies to Richard Fumerton, John Greco, and Michael Williams (2011) (0)
The Value of Human Knowledge (2018) (0)
When and How Is Suspension Apt? (2021) (0)
The Skeptic’s Appeal (2019) (0)
The Problem of the Criterion (2007) (0)
Chapter thirteen. Knowledge and Justification (2017) (0)
Chapter four. Three Views of Human Knowledge (2010) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: The analysis of “knowledge that p” (1991) (0)
Chapter four. Knowledge: What It Is and How We Might Have It (2017) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Metaethics (2009) (0)
Knowledge in perspective: Methodology and apt belief (1991) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Realism and Relativism (2003) (0)

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