Metaepistemology (eBook)

Christos Kyriacou is a Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and has received his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main interests lie in epistemology, metaethics and their intersection. He has published articles in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Papers, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophia as well as in volumes dealing with issues in metaepistemology (Metaepistemology, eds. C.McHugh, J.Way and D.Whiting, forthcoming, co-authored with T.Cuneo) and epistemic normativity (Epistemic Reasons, Norms and Goals, eds. M.Grajner and P.Schmechtig, 2016). He has also written the ‘Metaepistemology’ entry for Oxford Bibliographies Online in Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Robin McKenna is a postdoctoral researcher on the Emergence of Relativism project at the University of Vienna, Austria. Before coming to Vienna, he worked at the University of Geneva. His research is principally in epistemology and philosophy of language, though he has also done work in metaethics and is increasingly interested in the philosophy of science. He is currently working on a book that argues that knowledge is a social status. He has published articles in American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly  and Synthese.  

Introduction, Christos Kyriacou and Robin McKenna.- Part I: Epistemic Realism.- 1. The Core Expressivist Manoeuvre, Terence Cuneo.- 2. Epistemic Reductionism and the Moral-Epistemic Disparity, Chris Heathwood.- 3. From Moral Fixed Points to Epistemic Fixed Points, Christos Kyriacou.- 4. Normative Reasons for Mentalism, Eva Schmidt.- 5. Epistemic Consequentialism: Haters Gonna Hate, Nathaniel Sharadin.- Part II: Epistemic Anti-Realism.- 6. Knowledge, Reasons, and Errors about Error Theory, Charles Côté-Bouchard and Clayton Littlejohn.- 7. Constitutivism about Epistemic Normativity, Christopher Cowie and Alexander Greenberg.- 8. Correctness and Goodness, Allan Hazlett.- 9. The Genealogy of Relativism and Absolutism, Martin Kusch and Robin McKenna.- 10. Reasons Primitivism and Epistemic Expressivism, Teemu Toppinen.- Part III: Beyond the Realism/Anti-Realism Divide.- 11. What Anti-Realism about Hinges Could Possibly Be, Annalisa Coliva.- 12. Epistemic Schmagency?, A.K. Flowerree.