Routledge Studies in Epistemology
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in Epistemology series features monographs and edited collections on cutting-edge research topics in contemporary epistemology. It includes both new arguments on hot topics and new angles and innovative takes on established epistemological subjects. The series spans all areas of epistemology, including emerging issues in applied and social epistemology. It is a leading resource for scholars and graduate students looking for the newest and most important developments in epistemology.
How Should We Rationally Deal with Ignorance?: A Philosophical Study
1st Edition
By Nadja El Kassar
May 21, 2026
This book addresses two questions that are highly relevant for epistemology and for society: What is ignorance and how should we rationally deal with it? It proposes a new way of thinking about ignorance based on contemporary and historical philosophical theories. In the first part of the book, the...
Responsibility for Rationality: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind
1st Edition
By Sebastian Schmidt
May 21, 2026
This book develops the foundations of an ethics of mind by investigating the responsibility that is presupposed by the requirements of rationality that govern our attitudes. It thereby connects the most recent research on responsibility and rationality in a unifying dialectic. How can we be ...
The Philosophy of Indoctrination: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics
1st Edition
By Chris Ranalli
May 21, 2026
This book develops and defends a novel social epistemological account of indoctrination. It answers important epistemological, ethical, and political questions about what indoctrination is, why it is epistemically harmful, how it can be practiced, and how we should talk about indoctrination. The ...
Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Normativity
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Schmidt, Martin Grajner
February 12, 2026
This book contains twelve original contributions from leading epistemologists, which connect the debate over epistemic dilemmas with fundamental issues in contemporary epistemology. In an epistemic dilemma, any doxastic response of an agent will violate an epistemic requirement. Recently, there has...
Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology: Protecting Knowledge
1st Edition
By Keith Raymond Harris
September 28, 2025
This book argues that misinformation poses a multifaceted threat to knowledge, while arguing that some forms of content moderation risk exacerbating these threats. It proposes alternative forms of content moderation that aim to address this complexity while enhancing human epistemic agency. The ...
The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism
1st Edition
By Melanie Altanian
September 28, 2025
The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims, survivors, and their descendants, and further described as an assault on truth and memory. This book rethinks the normative relationship between dignity, truth, and memory in relation to genocide ...
The Epistemology of Experts: New Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Brössel, Anna-Maria Asunta Eder, Thomas Grundmann
August 28, 2025
This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts. It features original essays from leading epistemologists on this timely topic. Modern societies benefit significantly from a certain kind of epistemic division of labor: they outsource much of their epistemic work to well-trained ...
Evidentialism at 40: New Arguments, New Angles
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, Matthias Steup
August 07, 2025
This volume presents state-of-the-art research on issues related to evidentialism. It demonstrates the continuing relevance of evidentialist epistemology by bringing it into direct confrontation with some of its latest non-evidentialist rivals and by proposing new areas for exploration and ...
Inquiry: Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Aaron B. Creller, Jonathan Matheson
July 28, 2025
This volume brings together essays from several different perspectives on a topic in epistemology that is garnering increased attention: Inquiry. It is the first volume focused solely on philosophical issues related to inquiry. Inquiry is a fundamental human practice. We have questions, and we want...
Knowledge and Rational Action: Why What We Know Matters for the Rationality of What We Do
1st Edition
By Roman Heil
July 22, 2025
This book motivates and systematically develops the view that knowledge should be at the centre of our theory of practical rationality. “Only act on what you know!”—the book offers the first comprehensive defence of this slogan in the form of a knowledge-based decision theory. The proposed view is ...
Bursting Our Epistemic Bubbles: On Trust, Inquiry, and Epistemic Communities
1st Edition
By Heather Rabenberg
May 29, 2025
Due in large part to the increased personalization of various aspects of the Internet, many people have become insulated from the epistemic influence of people with views different from their own. This book develops a social epistemic framework that expands our understanding of epistemic ...
Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation
1st Edition
By J. Adam Carter
May 27, 2025
Information we use to structure our lives is increasingly stored digitally, rather than in biomemory. (Just think: if your online calendar went down, would you know where you are supposed to be and at what time next week?) Likewise, with breakthroughs such as those from Google DeepMind and OpenAI, ...