Normativity

Conor McHugh is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He works on a range of topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics broadly construed. These include the nature of belief and of attitudes more generally, normativity, reasons and reasoning, mental agency, doxastic non-voluntarism and self-knowledge. He has published in Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Issues, Philosophical Studies, Analysis, Analytic Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Thought, Synthese, the European Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and collections published by OUP and Ithaque, among other places.Jonathan Way is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He works on a range of topics in ethics and epistemology, broadly construed. These include the nature of reasons, rationality, value, normativity, and reasoning. He has published papers in Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophical Issues, the Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, and Analysis, among other places.Daniel Whiting is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He works on a wide range of subjects, including epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy. Recent topics include: reasons and rationality; the norms of belief, assertion, and practical reasoning; normative testimony; and epistemic value. He has published numerous papers in journals such as Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Analysis, Erkenntnis, British Journal of Aesthetics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

By tradition philosophical inquiry into the norms governing action and belief have been parcelled into the silos of ethics and epistemology, respectively. The present volume is part of an effort to support and bring together philosophers who are part of a growing recognition that the traditional division of labor between ethics and epistemology is something to be overcome, and should be applauded as such, in addition to its many substantive contributions.

• Conor McHugh, Jonathan Way, and Daniel Whiting: Introduction1: Charity Anderson: Putting Fallibilism to Work2: Jessica Brown: Pragmatic Approaches to Belief3: Ulrike Heuer: The Relevance of the Wrong Kind of Reasons4: David Hunter: Directives for Knowledge and Belief5: Benjamin Kiesewetter: How Reasons are Sensitive to Available Evidence6: Clayton Littlejohn: Evidence and its Limits7: Errol Lord: The Explanatory Problem for Cognitivism about Practical Reason8: Matthew McGrath: Pragmatic Encroachment: Its Problems are Your Problems!9: Kate Nolfi: Why Only Evidential Considerations Can Justify Belief10: Baron Reed: Practical Interests and Reasons for Belief11: Andrew Reisner: Two Theses about the Distinctness of Practical and Theoretical Normativity12: Daniel Star: Reasoning with Reasons13: Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen: Epistemic Instrumentalism, Permissibility, and Reasons for Belief