Bounded human knowledge: what this means and what it explains

Spread wide across its many facets, philosophy aims to understand what is involved in a good, flourishing life, individually and in community.This would include happiness, justice, virtue, personal identity, action, the mind, free will, autonomy, responsibility, rights, and so on, for many of the questions taken up by philosophers across human cultures.Human knowledge is among the important components of a flourishing human life, and philosophers across cultures have long and broadly tried to understand its nature.What follows gives an account of human knowledge through the approach of telic virtue epistemology.A main objective here is to go beyond earlier such efforts by now introducing and explaining the notion of bounded human knowledge.

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Philosophical Studies
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2026-04-01
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02439-0
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Science and Climate Studies
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Bounded human knowledge: what this means and what it explains

Ernest Sosa
Philosophical Studies
Science and Climate Studies
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Bounded human knowledge: what this means and what it explains

Ernest Sosa
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Abstract

Spread wide across its many facets, philosophy aims to understand what is involved in a good, flourishing life, individually and in community.This would include happiness, justice, virtue, personal identity, action, the mind, free will, autonomy, responsibility, rights, and so on, for many of the questions taken up by philosophers across human cultures.Human knowledge is among the important components of a flourishing human life, and philosophers across cultures have long and broadly tried to understand its nature.What follows gives an account of human knowledge through the approach of telic virtue epistemology.A main objective here is to go beyond earlier such efforts by now introducing and explaining the notion of bounded human knowledge.

Philosophical Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
Peace, Justice and strong institutions
Openalex Percentile: Top 21%
Science and Climate Studies
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