Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention

Abrol Fairweather is Lecturer in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has edited several volumes on virtue epistemology, including Virtue Epistemology (with Linda Zagzebski, 2001), Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue (with Own Flanagan, 2014), and Epistemic Situationism (with Mark Alfano, forthcoming). Carlos Montemayor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (2013) and Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention (with H. H. Haladjian, 2015).

• Introduction: why only agents are knowers; 1. Epistemic virtue, reliable attention and cognitive constitution; 2. Meta-epistemology and epistemic agency; 3. Success semantics and the etiology of success; 4. Epistemic agency; 5. Assertion as epistemic motivation; 6. Curiosity and epistemic achievement; 7. Collective agency, assertion and information.

'This is an excellent book … The reader gets a balanced, critical account of how virtue epistemology stands today. The argumentation is judicious and insightful. I learned a great deal from it, and so, I think, will anybody who reads it.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews