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This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It examines the concept of suspension from various perspectives, encompassing historical and contemporary approaches, its nature and normativity, and its relationship to other philosophical concepts as well as interdisciplinary applications.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introductory Note: Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond
Alexandra Zinke and Verena Wagner Part 1: Nature and Concept of Suspension 1. The Availability of Further Evidence and Agentialism about Suspension
Matthew McGrath 2. Committing to Indecision: A Taxonomy of Suspension of Judgment
Verena Wagner 3. How Should We Ascribe the Third Stance?
Luis Rosa 4. Suspending Judgment and Withdrawing Belief
Hans Rott 5. A Higher-Order Credal Account of Suspension (and Other Doxastic Attitudes)
Anna-Maria Eder and Peter Brössel Part 2: Theoretical and Practical Norms of Suspension 6. Normative Relations Between Ignorance and Suspension of Judgement: A Systematic Investigation
Anne Meylan and Thomas Raleigh 7. The Normative Profile of Agnosticism. Some Case Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Filippo Ferrari and Gioia Susanna 8. Rational Inquiry, Suspension, and Stability
Alexandra Zinke 9. Dogmatic Withholding: Confessions of a Serial Offender
Chris Tucker 10. Suspensive Wronging
Chris Ranalli Part 3: History of Suspension 11. TBD: Sextus Empiricus on Inquiry and Suspension of Judgment
Justin Vlasits 12. Suspending Judgement on Gods and on the Meaningfulness of Religious Language in Pyrrhonism
Joachim Bromand 13. Assent and Suspension of Assent to Kataleptic Impressions
Johanna Helene Schmitt Part 4: Applications of Suspension 14. Suspension in Default Logic
Daniela Schuster 15. How can Decision Models Decide to not Decide? Modeling Suspension in Fast-and-Frugal Trees (FFTs)
Hansjörg Neth and Jelena Meyer 16. The Ecological Rationality of Rule Packages
Igor Douven
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Verena Wagner is professor of philosophy of mind at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. She works at the intersection of philosophy of mind and epistemology. Her publications include Agnosticism as Settled Indecision (2022, Philosophical Studies), Bracketing (2025, Philosophical Issues) and three articles in Routledge collections: Epistemic Dilemma and Epistemic Conflict (2021), Zetetic Seemings and Their Role in Inquiry (2023) and Zetetic Norms: A Puzzle for Evidentialism? (2025).
Alexandra Zinke is professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on epistemology and the philosophy of logic. She is the author of
The Metaphyics of Logical Consequence (Klostermann, 2018) and has published articles in Erkenntnis, The Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.
