Epistemic Agency, Volume 23

This book collects cutting edge essays on epistemic agency and related topics by distinguished senior contributors to epistemology, as well as rising figures in the field. The assembly of scholars is impressive, as is reflected by the quality and range of their contributions.

1. Knowledge and Action

Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Human Agency
ERNEST SOSA 1

Skeptical Challenges and Knowing Action
STEPHEN HETHERINGTON 18

Fallibilism, Epistemic Possibility, and Epistemic Agency
BARON REED 40

2. Agency and Responsibility

Rational ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’
RALPH WEDGWOOD 70

Obsessive Thoughts and Inner Voices
LUCY O’BRIEN 93

The Possibility of Epistemic Responsibility
MIGUEL´ANGEL FERNANDEZ 109

Epistemic Responsibility and Doxastic Agency
CONOR MCHUGH 132

Is Epistemic Agency Possible?
PASCAL ENGEL 158

Epistemic Agency: Some Doubts
KIERAN SETIYA 179

Can Virtue Epistemology Capitalize on JTB’s Appeal?
E. J. COFFMAN 199

3. Intellectual Virtues

In Defense of Reflection
VALERIE TIBERIUS 223

Intellectual Autonomy
LINDA ZAGZEBSKI 244

A Neo-Stoic Approach to Epistemic Agency
SARAH WRIGHT 262

Why We Cannot Rely On Ourselves for Epistemic Improvement
KRISTOFFER AHLSTROM-VIJ 276

4. Reasoning and Epistemic Norms

Scope for Rational Autonomy
MARK SCHROEDER 297

Why We Reason the Way We Do
NISHI SHAH 311

Cognitive Diversity and Epistemic Norms
JESSICA BROWN 326

Epistemic Commitments, Epistemic Agency and Practical Reasons
MICHAEL P. LYNCH 343

The Rejection of Epistemic Consequentialism
SELIM BERKER 363

What Is an Inference?
RAM NETA 388

Errata 408

Series Editors
Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, and has published extensively in epistemology, metaphysics, and other areas.

Enrique Villanueva is a member of the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas at UNAM, and has published in the philosophy of mind.

Guest Editor
Baron Reed is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Northwestern University, and his main areas of interest are epistemology (scepticism) and the history of epistemology.