Magdalena Balcerak Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She works in philosophy of mind, epistemology and the philosophy of language and on the intersections of these areas. Her publications focus on the nature and the epistemology of various cognitive capacities, such as imagination, perception, understanding, and reasoning. She has worked at universities in Germany, Australia and the USA.Brendan Balcerak Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He works in philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. His publications address foundational problems in the philosophy of language, questions about linguistic understanding, meta-metaphysics, and disagreement, as well as questions about rationality and norms of reasoning. He has worked at universities in Australia, Germany and the USA.

The 12 essays in this volume offer a variety of analyses of reasoning, its nature, and its relationship to epistemic obligation and reasons...Epistemologists will find that many of the essays here are useful contributions to the field. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• 1: Introduction Part I: The Nature of Reasoning Reasoning as a Mental Process 2: Susanna Siegel: Inference without Reckoning 3: John Broome: A Linking Belief is Not Essential for Reasoning 4: Julia Staffel: Attitudes in Active Reasoning Reasoning and Agency 5: Nicholas Southwood: The Question of Practical Reason 5: Mark Richard: Is Reasoning a Form of Agency? 7: Paul Boghossian: Inference, Agency and Responsibility Part II: The Value of Reasoning Rules for Reasoning 8: Alex Worsnip: Isolating Correct Reasoning 9: Joshua Schechter: Small Steps and Great Leaps in Thought: The Epistemology of Basic Deductive Rules 10: Magdalena Balcerak Jackson and Brendan Balcerak Jackson: With Power Comes Responsibility: Cognitive Capacities and Rational Requirements Reasoning and Reasons 11: Michael G. Titelbaum and Matthew Kopec: When Rational Reasoners Reason Differently 12: Lisa Bortolotti, Magdalena Antrobus, and Ema Sullivan-Bissett: The Epistemic Innocence of Optimistically Biased Beliefs 13: Matthew Noah Smith: Sovereign Agency

Magdalena Balcerak Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She works in philosophy of mind, epistemology and the philosophy of language and on the intersections of these areas. Her publications focus on the nature and the epistemology of various cognitive capacities, such as imagination, perception, understanding, and reasoning. She has worked at universities in Germany, Australia and the USA.Brendan Balcerak Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He works in philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. His publications address foundational problems in the philosophy of language, questions about linguistic understanding, meta-metaphysics, and disagreement, as well as questions about rationality and norms of reasoning. He has worked at universities in Australia, Germany and the USA.

The 12 essays in this volume offer a variety of analyses of reasoning, its nature, and its relationship to epistemic obligation and reasons...Epistemologists will find that many of the essays here are useful contributions to the field. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• 1: Introduction Part I: The Nature of Reasoning Reasoning as a Mental Process 2: Susanna Siegel: Inference without Reckoning 3: John Broome: A Linking Belief is Not Essential for Reasoning 4: Julia Staffel: Attitudes in Active Reasoning Reasoning and Agency 5: Nicholas Southwood: The Question of Practical Reason 5: Mark Richard: Is Reasoning a Form of Agency? 7: Paul Boghossian: Inference, Agency and Responsibility Part II: The Value of Reasoning Rules for Reasoning 8: Alex Worsnip: Isolating Correct Reasoning 9: Joshua Schechter: Small Steps and Great Leaps in Thought: The Epistemology of Basic Deductive Rules 10: Magdalena Balcerak Jackson and Brendan Balcerak Jackson: With Power Comes Responsibility: Cognitive Capacities and Rational Requirements Reasoning and Reasons 11: Michael G. Titelbaum and Matthew Kopec: When Rational Reasoners Reason Differently 12: Lisa Bortolotti, Magdalena Antrobus, and Ema Sullivan-Bissett: The Epistemic Innocence of Optimistically Biased Beliefs 13: Matthew Noah Smith: Sovereign Agency

Magdalena Balcerak Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She works in philosophy of mind, epistemology and the philosophy of language and on the intersections of these areas. Her publications focus on the nature and the epistemology of various cognitive capacities, such as imagination, perception, understanding, and reasoning. She has worked at universities in Germany, Australia and the USA.Brendan Balcerak Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He works in philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. His publications address foundational problems in the philosophy of language, questions about linguistic understanding, meta-metaphysics, and disagreement, as well as questions about rationality and norms of reasoning. He has worked at universities in Australia, Germany and the USA.

The 12 essays in this volume offer a variety of analyses of reasoning, its nature, and its relationship to epistemic obligation and reasons...Epistemologists will find that many of the essays here are useful contributions to the field. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• 1: Introduction Part I: The Nature of Reasoning Reasoning as a Mental Process 2: Susanna Siegel: Inference without Reckoning 3: John Broome: A Linking Belief is Not Essential for Reasoning 4: Julia Staffel: Attitudes in Active Reasoning Reasoning and Agency 5: Nicholas Southwood: The Question of Practical Reason 5: Mark Richard: Is Reasoning a Form of Agency? 7: Paul Boghossian: Inference, Agency and Responsibility Part II: The Value of Reasoning Rules for Reasoning 8: Alex Worsnip: Isolating Correct Reasoning 9: Joshua Schechter: Small Steps and Great Leaps in Thought: The Epistemology of Basic Deductive Rules 10: Magdalena Balcerak Jackson and Brendan Balcerak Jackson: With Power Comes Responsibility: Cognitive Capacities and Rational Requirements Reasoning and Reasons 11: Michael G. Titelbaum and Matthew Kopec: When Rational Reasoners Reason Differently 12: Lisa Bortolotti, Magdalena Antrobus, and Ema Sullivan-Bissett: The Epistemic Innocence of Optimistically Biased Beliefs 13: Matthew Noah Smith: Sovereign Agency