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.
Rationality in Context: Unstable Virtues in an Uncertain World
1st Edition
By Steven Bland
May 06, 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 06, 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 ...
Knowledge and Rationality: Essays in Honor of Stewart Cohen
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Comesaña, Matthew McGrath
April 22, 2025
This book features original essays on knowledge and rationality as related to the work of Stewart Cohen. This is the first volume dedicated to Cohen, one of the most influential epistemologists of the last several decades. Stewart Cohen is responsible for introducing the New Evil Demon problem, the...
Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Verena Wagner, Alexandra Zinke
March 31, 2025
This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It features cutting-edge research from leading scholars on one of the main areas of contemporary epistemology and neighboring fields. The contributors examine the concept of suspension from various perspectives, encompassing historical ...
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 ...
New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Jope, Duncan Pritchard
August 26, 2024
This volume brings together new research on the topic of epistemic closure from both leading philosophers and emerging voices in epistemology. It connects epistemic closure principles to related themes in epistemology such as scepticism, dogmatism, evidentialism, epistemic logic, and modal ...
Propositional and Doxastic Justification: New Essays on Their Nature and Significance
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Silva Jr., Luis Oliveira
August 26, 2024
This volume features original essays that advance debates on propositional and doxastic justification and explore how these debates shape and are shaped by a range of established and emerging topics in contemporary epistemology. This is the first book-length project devoted to the distinction ...