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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      22 April 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511844645
      9780521193917
      9780521144315
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844645
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.478kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.353kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy
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    When we affirm (or deny) that someone knows something, we are making a value judgment of sorts - we are claiming that there is something superior (or inferior) about that person's opinion, or their evidence, or perhaps about them. A central task of the theory of knowledge is to investigate the sort of evaluation at issue. This is the first book to make 'epistemic normativity,' or the normative dimension of knowledge and knowledge ascriptions, its central focus. John Greco argues that knowledge is a kind of achievement, as opposed to mere lucky success. This locates knowledge within a broader, familiar normative domain. By reflecting on our thinking and practices in this domain, it is argued, we gain insight into what knowledge is and what kind of value it has for us.

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    "Achieving Knowledge: A Virtue-Theoretic Account of Epistemic Normativity is an admirable piece of work, a well-argued and insightful book. It is a strength of the book that Greco has read widely on the topic and attempts to synthesize much of what has been written."
    --George Lăzăroiu, PhD /IISHSS, New York, Review of Contemporary Philosophy

    "...It is an honor to review this book.... the book is an excellent example of the pursuit of an important research project.... the way the book is laid out (as well as the updatings of the papers the other chapters are based on) make the book a great read..."
    --Trent Dougherty, Baylor University, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

    "...Achieving Knowledge is a very competent addition to the literature, clearly meriting the attention of the growing number of epistemologists concerned with questions of value, virtue and justification... Achieving Knowledge is fundamentally an attempt to integrate competing intuitions concerning epistemic normativity into a single unifying theory..."
    --Michael-John Turp, University of Durham, UK, Philosophy in Review

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