A knowledge first virtue reliabilism of Christoph Kelp

Abstract

This article examines Christoph Kelp’s project of epistemology, which combines the approaches of Timothy Williamson’s knowledge-first approach and Ernest Sosa’s virtue reliabilism. Arguments are given in favour of the position that Kelp’s theory of competence is a quite productive and substantially self-contained epistemological concept. It allows to construct special epistemologies and to analyse the competence of non-human actors.

Keywords

• knowledge-first epistemology
• virtue epistemology
• reliabilism
• christoph kelp
• competence theory