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 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 08, 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, ...
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 ...
Knowledge and Rationality: Essays in Honor of Stewart Cohen
1st Edition
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By Juan Comesaña, Matthew McGrath
April 21, 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
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By Verena Wagner, Alexandra Zinke
March 30, 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...