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 Philosophy of Indoctrination: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics
1st Edition
By Chris Ranalli
December 16, 2024
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 ...
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 ...
Responsibility for Rationality: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind
1st Edition
By Sebastian Schmidt
November 25, 2024
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 ...
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 ...
How Should We Rationally Deal with Ignorance?: A Philosophical Study
1st Edition
By Nadja El Kassar
September 27, 2024
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...
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 ...
Rational Understanding: From Explanation to Knowledge
1st Edition
By Miloud Belkoniene
August 26, 2024
This book develops a novel account of the connections between justification, understanding, and knowledge. It lays the foundation for a more systematic and interconnected treatment of these central notions in epistemology. The author’s key move is to show first that a specific conception of ...
Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Christos Kyriacou, Kevin Wallbridge
May 27, 2024
This collection of original essays explores the topic of skeptical invariantism in theory of knowledge. It eschews historical perspectives and focuses on this traditionally underexplored, semantic characterization of skepticism. The book provides a carefully structured, state-of-the-art overview of...
The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism
1st Edition
By Melanie Altanian
April 23, 2024
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 ...