Distributed cognitive agency in virtue epistemology

Philosophical Explorations

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-180

  Kirchhoff, Michael David ^a   Newsome, Will ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognitive agency; cognitive assembly; epistemic credit; extended cognition; knowledge attribution; virtue epistemology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861745246     PISSN: 13869795     EISSN: 17415918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2012.670722     Document Type: Article

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