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.
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 ...
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, ...
Rationality in Context: Unstable Virtues in an Uncertain World
1st Edition
By Steven Bland
May 05, 2025
This book uses the psychological literature on rationality to weigh in on the recent debate between virtue epistemologists and epistemic situationists. It argues that both sides have misconstrued the literature and that an interactionist framework is needed to square epistemic theory with empirical...
Seemings: New Arguments, New Angles
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, Matthias Steup
May 05, 2025
This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact, epistemological theories such ...
Trust Responsibly: Non-Evidential Virtue Epistemology
1st Edition
By Jakob Ohlhorst
January 30, 2025
This book offers a defence of Wrightean epistemic entitlement, one of the most prominent approaches to hinge epistemology. It also systematically explores the connections between virtue epistemology and hinge epistemology. According to hinge epistemology, any human belief set is built within and ...
Seemings and the Foundations of Justification: A Defense of Phenomenal Conservatism
1st Edition
By Blake McAllister
December 18, 2024
All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified. This book illuminates the nature of immediate justification and the states that provide it. Simply put, immediate justification arises from how things appear to us—from all and only our "seemings." The author defends...
Illuminating Errors: New Essays on Knowledge from Non-Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Rodrigo Borges, Ian Schnee
November 28, 2024
This is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to knowledge from non-knowledge and related issues. It features original contributions from some of the most prominent and up-and-coming scholars working in contemporary epistemology. There is a nascent literature in epistemology about the ...
Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology
1st Edition
Edited
By Anand Vaidya, Duško Prelević
October 07, 2024
This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal ...
Epistemic Care: Vulnerability, Inquiry, and Social Epistemology
1st Edition
By Casey Rebecca Johnson
August 26, 2024
This book uses the framework of care ethics to articulate a novel theory of our epistemic obligations to one another. It presents an original way to understand our epistemic vulnerabilities, our obligations in education, and our care duties toward others with whom we stand in epistemically ...
Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained
1st Edition
By Nathaniel Sharadin
August 26, 2024
Do epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say 'yes', and thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given for it are misguided. Second, it ...