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.
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...
Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, Matthias Steup
January 29, 2024
This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is...
Intellectual Dependability: A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal
1st Edition
By T. Ryan Byerly
September 25, 2023
Intellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person—the sort of person on whom one’s fellow inquirers can depend in their pursuit of epistemic goods. While neglected in recent scholarship, this ...
Epistemic Autonomy
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Matheson, Kirk Lougheed
May 31, 2023
This is the first book dedicated to the topic of epistemic autonomy. It features original essays from leading scholars that promise to significantly shape future debates in this emerging area of epistemology. While the nature of and value of autonomy has long been discussed in ethics and social and...
The Philosophy of Group Polarization: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Psychology
1st Edition
By Fernando Broncano-Berrocal, J. Adam Carter
May 31, 2023
Group polarization—the tendency of groups to incline toward more extreme positions than initially held by their individual members—has been rigorously studied by social psychologists, though in a way that has overlooked important philosophical questions. This is the first book-length treatment of ...
The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials
1st Edition
Edited
By Zachary Hoskins, Jon Robson
May 31, 2023
This collection is the first book-length examination of the various epistemological issues underlying legal trials. Trials are centrally concerned with determining truth: whether a criminal defendant has in fact culpably committed the act of which they are accused, or whether a civil defendant is ...
Ethno-Epistemology: New Directions for Global Epistemology
1st Edition
Edited
By Masaharu Mizumoto, Jonardon Ganeri, Cliff Goddard
August 01, 2022
This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology. It brings together philosophers, linguists, and scholars working on knowledge traditions to advance work in epistemology that moves beyond the Anglophone sphere. The first group of...
The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons
1st Edition
By Hamid Vahid
August 01, 2022
This book is concerned with the conditions under which epistemic reasons provide justification for beliefs. The author draws on metaethical theories of reasons and normativity and then applies his theory to various contemporary debates in epistemology. In the first part of the book, the author ...
The Epistemology of Group Disagreement
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Broncano-Berrocal, J. Adam Carter
August 01, 2022
This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group disagreement. Debates in the epistemology of disagreement have mainly been concerned with idealized cases of peer disagreement between individuals. However, most real-life disagreements are complex and often ...
Social Epistemology and Relativism
1st Edition
Edited
By Natalie Alana Ashton, Martin Kusch, Robin McKenna, Katharina Anna Sodoma
June 13, 2022
This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, the variability of ...
The Ethics of Belief and Beyond: Understanding Mental Normativity
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Schmidt, Gerhard Ernst
June 13, 2022
This volume provides a framework for approaching and understanding mental normativity. It presents cutting-edge research on the ethics of belief as well as innovative research beyond the normativity of belief—and towards an ethics of mind. By moving beyond traditional issues of epistemology the ...