Ernest Sosa
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Ernest Sosa is currently the Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, Rhode Island and regular visiting professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He plans to leave Brown and take a full-time position at Rutgers beginning in January, 2007. He is one of the leading contemporary epistemologists, and has also written on metaphysics, modern philosophy and philosophy of mind. In epistemology Sosa is known for defending "virtue epistemology" and a virtue perspectivism that distinguishes animal knowledge from reflective knowledge. Sosa earned his BA from the University of Miami and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. He then went to Brown University, where he came under the philosophical influence of fellow professor Roderick Chisholm. His son, David Sosa, is associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.
Sosa is a past president of the American Philosophical Association.
He edits the philosophical journals Noûs and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
