Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Ernest Sosa

Born: June 17, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Ernest Sosa is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. He is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University since 2007, but spent most of his career at Brown University.
Known for:
- A Virtue Epistemology (2007)
- Epistemic Justification (2003)
- Knowledge in perspective (1991)
- Knowing Full Well (2010)
- Judgment and Agency (2015)