Epistemic Dilemmas

Kevin McCain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His authored works include: Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge, 2014), The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (2016), (with Kostas Kampourakis) Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (2019), and Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (Routledge, 2021). His edited works include: (with Ted Poston) Best Explanations: New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation (2017), Believing in Accordance with the Evidence: New Essays on Evidentialism (2018), (with Ted Poston) The Mystery of Skepticism: New Explorations (2018), (with Kostas Kampourakis) What is Scientific Knowledge? An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science (Routledge, 2019), and (with Scott Stapleford) Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge, 2020).Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. He is the author of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), coauthor (with Lorne Falkenstein and Molly Kao) of Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (Routledge, 2022), coauthor (with Tyron Goldschmidt) of Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2016) and Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2021), coeditor (with Kevin McCain) of Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge, 2020), and co-translator and coeditor (with Courtney D. Fugate and Curtis Sommerlatte) of Tetens’s Writings on Method, Language, and Anthropology (2021).Matthias Steup received his Ph.D. 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) and A Companion to Epistemology (2010).

• Introductory NoteKevin McCain, Scott Stapleford and Matthias SteupPart I: What are Epistemic Dilemmas? Do they exist?1. Rational Dilemmas and their Place in the Bigger PictureGraham Priest2. Higher-Order Evidence and the Normativity of Logic Mattias Skipper3. Collateral Conflicts and Epistemic NormsJ. Adam Carter4. Epistemic Dilemma and Epistemic ConflictVerena Wagner 5. Epistemic Dilemmas, Epistemic Quasi-Dilemmas, and Quasi-Epistemic Dilemmas Scott Stapleford and Kevin McCain6. Defeaters, Higher-Order Evidence, and Epistemic Dilemmas Matthias Steup7. Scepticism about Epistemic DilemmasMona Simion8. When in Doubt, Withhold: A Defense of Two Grounds of Rational WithholdingA.K. Flowerree9. Epistemic Dilemmas DeniedEarl ConeePart II: No Easy Way Out? Facing Epistemic Dilemmas 10. Embracing Epistemic DilemmasDavid Christensen11. Knowledge-First Evidentialism and the Dilemmas of Self-ImpactEyal Tal and Paul Silva Jr.12. Stereotypes, Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic DispositionsKatherine Puddifoot13. Dilemmas, Disagreement, and DualismLiz Jackson14. Normative Indeterminacy in the Epistemic DomainNick Leonard and Fabrizio Cariani15. Who’s Afraid of Epistemic Dilemmas?Nick Hughes