Knowledge and Rationality

This book features original essays on knowledge and rationality as related to the work of Stewart Cohen. This is the first volume dedicated to Stewart Cohen, one of the most influential epistemologists of the last few decades.

Autorentext

Juan Comesaña is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is author of Being Rational and Being Right and Skepticism: The Basics (with Manuel Comesaña), as well as articles in epistemology.

Matthew McGrath is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is author of Knowledge in an Uncertain World (with Jeremy Fantl) and A Contemporary Introduction to Epistemology (with Alvin Goldman), as well as articles in epistemology.

Inhalt

Introduction Juan Comesaña and Matthew McGrath Bibliography of Stewart Cohen 1. The New Evil Demon Problem and the Nature of Evidence Thomas Kelly 2. The Evil Demon's Experience Machine David Sosa 3. Wide Epistemic States Jonathan Vogel 4. Easy Knowledge Revisited Richard Fumerton 5. Not by Our Bootstraps: Stewart Cohen on Perceptual Justification Gideon Rosen 6. Cohen on the Attraction and Defeat of Skeptical Hypotheses N. Ángel Pinillos 7. Morality Does Not Encroach Zachary Goodsell and John Hawthorne 8. Pragmatic Encroachment and the Structure of Reasons Shyam Nair 9. On the 'Epistemic': What are Epistemologists Theorizing About? Kate Nolfi 10. The Apt and the Hippocratic: Judgment, Blame, and Negligence Ernest Sosa 11. Epistemic Oughts of Attention Mona Simion 12. Rational Epistemic Akrasia Lite Earl Conee and Richard Feldman