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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1. 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
