This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways—from listening to each other, learning from each other, and mutually enriching each other’s perspectives. Medina’s epistemology of resistance offers a contextualist theory of our complicity with epistemic injustices and a social ...

This volume brings together eleven essays from twelve philosophers writing on the epistemic significance of disagreement. Stewart Cohen, John Hawthorne and Amia Srinivasan, and Thomas Kelly all address the question of when (if ever) the disagreement of others requires a rational agent to revise her beliefs, or compromises an agent’s knowledge. David Christensen and Brian Weatherson discuss the question of whether accounts on which agents are required to revise their beliefs in the face of dis...

This book argues for several dramatic breaks with the epistemological tradition, while also arguing for significant continuity with epistemology as it has come to be practiced. At important junctures, the book finds a way of “going between” the commonly conceived epistemological alternatives. The result is both a retentive and a revisionary account of various matters: (i) of the character of a priori reflective inquiry, (ii) of conceptual analysis as a form of a priori inquiry and as a corner...

Groups engage in epistemic activity all the time. In the philosophy of mind and action there is a matured literature advancing competing theories of what groups are and how they do what they do. More recently, social epistemology has also flourished, expanding and making connections with other areas of philosophy. With these two philosophical lenses now beginning to align themselves, the new vista before us is that of collective epistemology—a natural next step for social epistemology. The es...

Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism is one of the most important and influential texts in the history of Greek philosophy. This book examines those aspects of Pyrrhonian Scepticism as Sextus describes it in the Outlines—its commitment to the search for truth and to certain principles of rationality, its scope, and its consequences for action and agency—that are of special philosophical significance. It argues that the Sceptic is engaged in the search for truth and that since this is so, ...

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in interest in Descartes' thought, and especially in the relationship between his philosophical and scientific work. The chapters in this volume represent the best current work on Descartes' philosophy and science, with contributions from an international roster of leading Descartes scholars, including Alan Gabbey, Jean-Marie Beyssade Gary Hatfield, Margaret Wilson, Willis Doney, Daniel Garber, Edwin Curley, and Jean-Luc Marion. The chapters range over ...

The first of the chapters in this book argues against foundationalism in moral philosophy. The next analyzes the main arguments in Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics. One chapter relates Victorian moral philosophy to Victorian fiction; three present a general view of the history of modern ethics. Another documents and criticizes the neglect of this history in the American philosophy curriculum. The next five chapters discuss specific topics in the history of modern moral philosophy. One analyzes th...

This is a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field today. These essays address a wide range of issues concerning Spinoza’s ethical theory and, in doing so, deepen our understanding of this relatively neglected but richly rewarding facet of his system. Given its importance to his philosophical ambitions, it is surprising that his ethics has, until recently, received relatively little scholarly attention. Anglophone philosophy has tended to focus on Spinoza’s contribution ...

This book is a collection of important work on the problem of scepticism, by someone who has provided perhaps the leading contemporary investigation of this problem. The guiding questions of this volume are: Can we have knowledge of the external world of things outside our minds? Can we have knowledge of the internal world of our own contentful mental states? The work divides into four sections: I. Transcendental Arguments against Scepticism, II. Semantic Answers to Scepticism, III. Self-know...