1st Edition

Knowledge and Rationality Essays in Honor of Stewart Cohen

Edited By Juan Comesaña, Matthew McGrath Copyright 2025
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

This book features original essays on knowledge and rationality as related to the work of Stewart Cohen. This is the first volume dedicated to Cohen, one of the most influential epistemologists of the last several decades. Stewart Cohen is responsible for introducing the New Evil Demon problem, the problem of easy knowledge, and epistemic contextualism. Any one of these contributions is... Read more

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

Biography

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.

"Stewart Cohen is a towering and central figure in epistemology. It is surprising to discover that no volume has yet been dedicated to his work. However, given his recent retirement, this celebration and discussion of Cohen is both timely and sorely needed. I expect this volume to reinvigorate interest in Cohen’s many important contributions."

Brian Kim, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA