Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Epistemic Justification (Blackwell Publishers, 2003), with Laurence Bonjour
Ernest Sosa and His Critics, ed. John Greco (Blackwell, 2004)
A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Reflective Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, ed. John Turri (Springer, 2013)
Judgment and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ernest Sosa. Targeting His Philosophy, ed. Amrei Bahr and Markus Seidel (Springer, 2016)
Performance Normativity, ed. Miguel Ángel Fernandez (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Epistemology (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Special issue on the work of Ernest Sosa (Synthese, 2019)
Special issue on the work of Ernest Sosa (Episteme, 2019)
Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 2008- ; Professor of Philosophy, 2007- 2008. Distinguished Visiting Professor every spring at Rutgers from 1998 to 2007.
B.A., University of Miami, 1961. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1964.
At Brown University from 1964 to 2007, with brief stints elsewhere. At Brown: postdoctoral fellow, 1964 to 1966; from Assistant Professor to Professor, 1967 to 1974; Professor from 1974 to 2007; Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and Professor of Philosophy from 1981 to 2007. Brown Philosophy Department Chair (1970-76). Also taught at the following universities: Western Ontario (1963-4, and 1966-7), and as a visitor at CUNY Graduate Center, Harvard, Mexico, Miami, Michigan, Salamanca, and Texas. Cowling Professor at Carleton College (Spring, 1995). Visiting Fellow at St. Catherines College, Oxford (Trinity, 1997), at the Australian National University, Canberra (2002), and at All Souls College, Oxford (Trinity, 2005).
Many articles in journals and books, many reprinted in collections, and two selected for The Philosophers' Annual, each as "among the best ten articles" in its year of publication. A link to a partial list of publications is at this site.
Editor, since 1983, of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Editor, since 1999, of Noûs. Editor, since 2000, of Philosophical Issues. General editor, from 1992 to 2003, of the book series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy (Cambridge University Press). Editor of several collections and works of reference, and member of the editorial boards of several philosophy journals.
Elected Vice-President of the Federation Internationale des Societes de Philosophie (FISP), for 1988-93. Elected in 1993 by FISP to co-chair the program committee for the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, held in Boston in 1998.
Recipient of grants or fellowships from the Canada Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Exxon Educational Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Elected in 1992 to permanent membership in the Institut International de Philosophie. Elected as follows by the IIP: in 1993, to serve a three-year term on its Executive Committee; in 1997, to serve a three-year term on its Nominating Committee.
Service to the American Philosophical Association (APA) as follows: for eight years as Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division, and later for five years as Chair of the APA International Cooperation Committee, one of the Association's five standing committees. Subsequently elected by the Eastern Division of the APA to serve a three-year term as its Divisional Representative; and in 2003 elected to serve for three years, first as Vice-President, then as President, and then as Past-President. All six offices carry ex officio membership on the APA Board of Officers. Elected Chair of the APA Board of Officers for 2005-8.
Elected in 2001 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Service to the Academy during eight years, as chair of the panel for election of philosophers, Class IV.1, and concurrently on the membership committee for election of humanities scholars, Class IV.
Subject of entries in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford University Press, 1995), in the Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, ed. S. Brown, D. Collinson, and R. Wilkinson (Routledge, 1995), in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005), in Epistemology A-Z (Palgrave, 2005), in the Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics (2009), in the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (2010), in the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960 (Thoemmes Press, 2005), and in the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Ernest Sosa and His Critics, edited by John Greco, appears in the series Philosophers and Their Critics (Blackwell Publishers, 2004).
Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, edited by John Turri, appears in the Philosophical Studies series (Springer, 2013).
Six Gaos Lectures delivered at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, in 1983. (http://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/catedra-jose-gaos)
Elected in 2002 by the Oxford Philosophy Faculty to give the six John Locke Lectures at Oxford University in 2005. A two-volume work, Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, published by Oxford University Press, contains these lectures as its first volume, A Virtue Epistemology, which appeared in 2007, and Reflective Knowledge as its second volume, published in 2009.
(https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/john-locke-lectures#collapse386431)
Three Soochow Lectures delivered at Soochow University, Taipei, in 2008. Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011) derives from these lectures. (https://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/title/soochow-university-lectures-in-philosophy.html)
Elected in 2008 to give the three Carus Lectures to the American Philosophical Association; these were delivered at the Chicago meetings held in February of 2010. (http://www.apaonline.org/?carus)
Many keynote and plenary lectures at congresses and conferences, national and international. Many individual named lectures at universities here and abroad.
Awarded the Rescher Medal by the University of Pittsburgh “for contributions to systematic philosophy,” in 2010.
Awarded the Quinn Prize by the American Philosophical Association "for service to philosophy and philosophers," in 2010.
Münster Lecture and associated workshop at the University of Münster in 2014.
(http://www.uni-muenster.de/PhilSem/veranstaltungen/mvph/mvph.html)
Judgment and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy, ed. by A. Baehr and M. Seidel (Springer, 2016). Derives from the Münster workshop listed above.
Performance Normativity, ed. by M.A. Fernandez (Oxford University Press, 2016). Derives from a conference on virtue epistemology at UNAM, Mexico, celebrating ES's 70th birthday.
Awarded the Lebowitz Prize by Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association "for philosophical achievement and contribution," in 2016.
Tang-Chun-I Visitor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March, 2017.
Epistemology (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Ernest Sosa prizes established in 2017 by the American Philosophical Association, for excellence in epistemology.
Conference on the work of E. Sosa organized by Episteme in July of 2018, with the proceedings to be published in the journal.
Maimonides Lecture, plenary lecture at the 2018 World Congress of Philosophy, held in Beijing, China
Special Issue of Synthese on the epistemology of E. Sosa, 2019
Epistemic Justification (Blackwell Publishers, 2003), with Laurence Bonjour
Ernest Sosa and His Critics, ed. John Greco (Blackwell, 2004)
A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Reflective Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, ed. John Turri (Springer, 2013)
Judgment and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ernest Sosa. Targeting His Philosophy, ed. Amrei Bahr and Markus Seidel (Springer, 2016)
Performance Normativity, ed. Miguel Ángel Fernandez (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Epistemology (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Special issue on the work of Ernest Sosa (Synthese, 2019)
Special issue on the work of Ernest Sosa (Episteme, 2019)
Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 2008- ; Professor of Philosophy, 2007- 2008. Distinguished Visiting Professor every spring at Rutgers from 1998 to 2007.
B.A., University of Miami, 1961. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1964.
At Brown University from 1964 to 2007, with brief stints elsewhere. At Brown: postdoctoral fellow, 1964 to 1966; from Assistant Professor to Professor, 1967 to 1974; Professor from 1974 to 2007; Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and Professor of Philosophy from 1981 to 2007. Brown Philosophy Department Chair (1970-76). Also taught at the following universities: Western Ontario (1963-4, and 1966-7), and as a visitor at CUNY Graduate Center, Harvard, Mexico, Miami, Michigan, Salamanca, and Texas. Cowling Professor at Carleton College (Spring, 1995). Visiting Fellow at St. Catherines College, Oxford (Trinity, 1997), at the Australian National University, Canberra (2002), and at All Souls College, Oxford (Trinity, 2005).
Many articles in journals and books, many reprinted in collections, and two selected for The Philosophers' Annual, each as "among the best ten articles" in its year of publication. A link to a partial list of publications is at this site.
Editor, since 1983, of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Editor, since 1999, of Noûs. Editor, since 2000, of Philosophical Issues. General editor, from 1992 to 2003, of the book series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy (Cambridge University Press). Editor of several collections and works of reference, and member of the editorial boards of several philosophy journals.
Elected Vice-President of the Federation Internationale des Societes de Philosophie (FISP), for 1988-93. Elected in 1993 by FISP to co-chair the program committee for the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, held in Boston in 1998.
Recipient of grants or fellowships from the Canada Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Exxon Educational Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Elected in 1992 to permanent membership in the Institut International de Philosophie. Elected as follows by the IIP: in 1993, to serve a three-year term on its Executive Committee; in 1997, to serve a three-year term on its Nominating Committee.
Service to the American Philosophical Association (APA) as follows: for eight years as Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division, and later for five years as Chair of the APA International Cooperation Committee, one of the Association's five standing committees. Subsequently elected by the Eastern Division of the APA to serve a three-year term as its Divisional Representative; and in 2003 elected to serve for three years, first as Vice-President, then as President, and then as Past-President. All six offices carry ex officio membership on the APA Board of Officers. Elected Chair of the APA Board of Officers for 2005-8.
Elected in 2001 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Service to the Academy during eight years, as chair of the panel for election of philosophers, Class IV.1, and concurrently on the membership committee for election of humanities scholars, Class IV.
Subject of entries in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford University Press, 1995), in the Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, ed. S. Brown, D. Collinson, and R. Wilkinson (Routledge, 1995), in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005), in Epistemology A-Z (Palgrave, 2005), in the Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics (2009), in the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (2010), in the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960 (Thoemmes Press, 2005), and in the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Ernest Sosa and His Critics, edited by John Greco, appears in the series Philosophers and Their Critics (Blackwell Publishers, 2004).
Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, edited by John Turri, appears in the Philosophical Studies series (Springer, 2013).
Six Gaos Lectures delivered at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, in 1983. (http://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/catedra-jose-gaos)
Elected in 2002 by the Oxford Philosophy Faculty to give the six John Locke Lectures at Oxford University in 2005. A two-volume work, Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, published by Oxford University Press, contains these lectures as its first volume, A Virtue Epistemology, which appeared in 2007, and Reflective Knowledge as its second volume, published in 2009.
(https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/john-locke-lectures#collapse386431)
Three Soochow Lectures delivered at Soochow University, Taipei, in 2008. Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011) derives from these lectures. (https://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/title/soochow-university-lectures-in-philosophy.html)
Elected in 2008 to give the three Carus Lectures to the American Philosophical Association; these were delivered at the Chicago meetings held in February of 2010. (http://www.apaonline.org/?carus)
Many keynote and plenary lectures at congresses and conferences, national and international. Many individual named lectures at universities here and abroad.
Awarded the Rescher Medal by the University of Pittsburgh “for contributions to systematic philosophy,” in 2010.
Awarded the Quinn Prize by the American Philosophical Association "for service to philosophy and philosophers," in 2010.
Münster Lecture and associated workshop at the University of Münster in 2014.
(http://www.uni-muenster.de/PhilSem/veranstaltungen/mvph/mvph.html)
Judgment and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy, ed. by A. Baehr and M. Seidel (Springer, 2016). Derives from the Münster workshop listed above.
Performance Normativity, ed. by M.A. Fernandez (Oxford University Press, 2016). Derives from a conference on virtue epistemology at UNAM, Mexico, celebrating ES's 70th birthday.
Awarded the Lebowitz Prize by Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association "for philosophical achievement and contribution," in 2016.
Tang-Chun-I Visitor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March, 2017.
Epistemology (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Ernest Sosa prizes established in 2017 by the American Philosophical Association, for excellence in epistemology.
Conference on the work of E. Sosa organized by Episteme in July of 2018, with the proceedings to be published in the journal.
Maimonides Lecture, plenary lecture at the 2018 World Congress of Philosophy, held in Beijing, China
Special Issue of Synthese on the epistemology of E. Sosa, 2019