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Ernest Sosa is the Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, having joined in 2007. Previously, he held the Romeo Elton Professorship of Natural Theology and Philosophy at Brown University from 1964 to 2007. He earned a B.A. from the University of Miami (1961) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1964). His research focuses on epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and moral epistemology, particularly advancing virtue epistemology. Sosa has authored influential books like A Virtue Epistemology (2007) and Epistemic Explanations (2021), and edited major journals such as Noûs and Philosophical Issues. He has received prestigious awards including the Rescher Medal (2010), Quinn Prize (2010), and Lebowitz Prize (2016). His work has been celebrated globally through lectures at Oxford, Harvard, and universities in Mexico, Taiwan, and Spain.
His scholarly contributions include over 100 journal articles and book chapters, many reprinted in The Philosophers' Annual. Sosa has held visiting professorships worldwide and served as a key figure in international philosophical organizations, including the American Philosophical Association and the Institut International de Philosophie. His research emphasizes epistemic justification, normativity, and the integration of virtue ethics with epistemology, shaping contemporary debates in analytic philosophy.
Recent activities include the Episteme (2019) and Synthese (2020) special issues on his work, as well as lectures at the World Congress of Philosophy (2018, 2024), the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge (2022), and universities in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, and Montevideo. Sosa's international engagements reflect his influence in global philosophical discourse.
