1st Edition

Seemings New Arguments, New Angles

Edited By Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, Matthias Steup Copyright 2024
298 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact, epistemological theories such as phenomenal conservatism and dogmatism give pride of place to seemings. Such views insist that... Read more

Introductory Note Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, and Matthias Steup

Part 1: Seemings and How They Justify

1. The Chemistry of Epistemic Justification Matthias Steup

2. Seemings and Truth Blake McAllister

3. Nonsubjectivism about How Things Seem Matthew McGrath

4. Against the Phenomenal View of Evidence: Disagreement and Shared Evidence Elizabeth Jackson

5. Appearances and the Problem of Stored Beliefs Scott Stapleford and Kevin McCain

6. Emotions as Evidence for Evaluations Earl Conee and Richard Feldman

7. How to Be Irrational Michael Huemer

Part 2: Seemings in Inference and Inquiry

8. Dogmatism, Seemings, and Non-Deductive Inferential Justification Berit Brogaard and Dimitria Electra Gatzia

9. Inference Without the Taking Condition Declan Smithies

10. Zetetic Seemings and Their Role in Inquiry Verena Wagner

11. Intuition in Philosophical Inquiry John Bengson 

Part 3: Seemings and Perception

12. Veridical Perceptual Seemings Elijah Chudnoff

13. Perceptual Seemings and Perceptual Learning Harmen Ghijsen

14. Phenomenal Explanationism and the Look of Things Kevin McCain and Luca Moretti 

Part 4: Intellectual Seemings and Intuitions

15. A Priori vs. A Posteriori Justification: The Central Role of Rational Intuitions Bruce Russell

16. Thought Experiments as Tools of Theory Clarification Grace Helton

17. Lessons from Commonsensism for Religious Epistemology Michael Bergmann

Biography

Kevin McCain is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has authored and edited several works in epistemology and philosophy of science including the following from Routledge: Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (2014), Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (2021), What is Scientific Knowledge? An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science (with Kostas Kampourakis, 2019), Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (with Scott Stapleford, 2020), and Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (with Scott Stapleford and Matthias Steup, 2021).

Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. His publications for Routledge include Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (with Lorne Falkenstein and Molly Kao, 2022), Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (with Tyron Goldschmidt, 2021), Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and Explained (with Tyron Goldschmidt, 2016), and two edited collections: Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (with Kevin McCain and Matthias Steup, 2021) and Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (with Kevin McCain, 2020).

Matthias Steup received his PhD from Brown University in 1985. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (1996) and numerous articles in epistemology. He is the editor of Knowledge, Truth and Duty (2001) and co-editor of Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2005, 2014), A Companion to Epistemology (2010), and Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge, 2021).