Resume of A Virtue Epistemology

A Virtue Epistemology draws a Picture of human knowledge as a kind of successful cognitive performance. In order to be apt a performance must attain its basic aim, it must be a competent performance, and, further, its success must manifest its competence. Animal knowledge is apt cognitive performance, apt belief. But there is a higher level of knowledge, reflective knowledge. Here the believer aptly notes, or implicitly presupposes, the aptness of his first-order belief. The book details such a picture of knowledge on its two levels.