Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge

<i>Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge</i> focuses on two dominant trends within contemporary epistemology: the growing dissatisfaction with the reductive analysis of knowledge, which explains knowledge in terms of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions, and the surging popularity of virtue-theoretic epistemologies. Bridging both trends, Ian Church puts forward a rigorous defence of non-reductive virtue epistemology, elucidating what is wrong with the reductive analysis model in general, and why the reductive accounts of virtue epistemology in particular are lacking. Church makes room for non-reductive virtue epistemologies that are not only able to endure what he sees as inevitable developments in 21st-century epistemology, but are also able to contribute positively to debates and discussions across the discipline and beyond.