Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
What is Metaphilosophical Equilibrism? László Kocsis and János Tőzsér
PART I. Disagreement
1. Equilibrism and the Argument from Disagreement Insa Lawler
2. The Metaphilosophical Problem of the Criterion, Equilibrism, and the Problem of Disappointment Scott Aikin
3. A New Disagreement Challenge: Deep Disagreements and Philosophy Victoria Lavorerio
4. Philosophy and the Egocentric Perspective Richard Fumerton
PART II. Beliefs
5. Knockdown Arguments for Philosophically Substantive Conclusions Bryan Frances
6. Pyrrhonian Equilibrism László Bernáth and János Tőzsér
7. Pragmatism about Philosophical Belief Chris Ranalli
8. Ontology and Acceptance Ted Parent
9. The Instability of Equilibrism and the Need for Support Tamás Paár
PART III. Commonsense
10. Wittgenstein’s Commonsense Radicalism Duncan Pritchard
11. Philosophy and Common-Sense Noah Lemos
12. Balancing Beliefs: Lewis on the Role of Commonsense in Philosophical Theorizing László Kocsis
Part IV. Perspectives
13. What is Philosophical Progress? An Equilibrium-based Pluralist Account Jie Gao
14. Overfitting or Extensional Adequacy? The Case of Morally Pregnant Cases in Epistemology Mona Simion and Harmen Ghijsen
15. Equilibrism and Ethics Folke Tersman
16. Metaequilibrism: Embracing a Diversity of Aims for Philosophy Graham Bex-Priestley.
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Biography
László Kocsis is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary. His research interests lie in analytic metaphysics, philosophy of science, history of analytic philosophy, epistemology, and theories of truth. He is the coeditor of Wilfrid Sellars’s Metaphilosophy: Two Images and the Philosophy in Between (Bloomsbury, 2026).
János Tőzsér is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest, Hungary. His main research interests include philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphilosophy. He is the author of The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2023).
