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.
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 ...
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 ...