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Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond book cover

1st Edition

Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond

Edited By Verena Wagner, Alexandra Zinke Copyright 2025
340 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It features cutting-edge research from leading scholars on one of the main areas of contemporary epistemology and neighboring fields. The contributors examine the concept of suspension from various perspectives, encompassing historical and contemporary approaches, its nature and normativity, and its relationship to other philosophical... Read more

Introductory Note: Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond Alexandra Zinke and Verena Wagner

Part 1: Nature and Concept of Suspension

1. The Availability of Further Evidence and Agentialism about Suspension Matthew McGrath

2. Committing to Indecision: A Taxonomy of Suspension of Judgment Verena Wagner

3. How Should We Ascribe the Third Stance? Luis Rosa

4. Suspending Judgment and Withdrawing Belief Hans Rott

5. A Higher-Order Credal Account of Suspension (and Other Doxastic Attitudes) Anna-Maria A. Eder and Peter Brössel

Part 2: Theoretical and Practical Norms of Suspension

6. Normative Relations Between Ignorance and Suspension of Judgement: A Systematic Investigation Anne Meylan and Thomas Raleigh

7. The Normative Profile of Agnosticism. Some Case Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics Filippo Ferrari and Gioia Susanna

8. Rational Inquiry, Suspension, and Stability Alexandra Zinke

9. Dogmatic Withholding: Confessions of a Serial Offender Chris Tucker

10. Suspensive Wronging Chris Ranalli

Part 3: History of Suspension

11. TBD: Sextus Empiricus on Inquiry and Suspension of Judgment Justin Vlasits

12. Suspending Judgement on Gods and on the Meaningfulness of Religious Language in Pyrrhonism Joachim Bromand

13. Assent and Suspension of Assent to Kataleptic Impressions Johanna Helene Schmitt

Part 4: Applications of Suspension

14. Suspension in Default Logic Daniela Schuster

15. How can Decision Models Decide to not Decide? Modeling Suspension in Fast-and-Frugal Trees (FFTs) Hansjörg Neth and Jelena Meyer

16. The Ecological Rationality of Rule Packages Igor Douven

Biography

Verena Wagner is professor of philosophy of mind at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. She works at the intersection of philosophy of mind and epistemology. Her publications include Agnosticism as Settled Indecision (2022, Philosophical Studies), Bracketing (2025, Philosophical Issues) and three articles in Routledge collections: Epistemic Dilemma and Epistemic Conflict (2021), Zetetic Seemings and Their Role in Inquiry (2023) and Zetetic Norms: A Puzzle for Evidentialism? (2025).

Alexandra Zinke is professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on epistemology and the philosophy of logic. She is the author of The Metaphyics of Logical Consequence (Klostermann, 2018) and has published articles in Erkenntnis, The Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.

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