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This is the first volume dedicated solely to the topic of epistemological disjunctivism. The original essays in this volume, written by leading and up-and-coming scholars on the topic, are divided into three thematic sections. The first set of chapters addresses the historical background of epistemological disjunctivism. It features essays on ancient epistemology, Immanuel Kant, J.L. Austin, Edmund Husserl, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The second section tackles a number contemporary issues related to epistemological disjunctivism, including its relationship with perceptual disjunctivism, radical skepticism, and reasons for belief. Finally, the third group of essays extends the framework of epistemological disjunctivism to other forms of knowledge, such as testimonial knowledge, knowledge of other minds, and self-knowledge. Epistemological Disjunctivism is a timely collection that engages with an increasingly important topic in philosophy. It will appeal to researches and graduate students working in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of perception.
List of contents
1. Introduction
Casey Doyle, Joseph Milburn, and Duncan Pritchard
Part I: Situating Disjunctivism
2. Perceptual Experience and Empirical Rationality
John McDowell
3. Epistemological Disjunctivism and Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology
Duncan Pritchard
Part II: Historical Antecedents
4. Ancient Philosophy and Disjunctivism: The Case of the Stoics
Iakovos Vasiliou
5. The Kantian Roots of Epistemological Disjunctivism
Thomas Lockhart
6. Was Wittgenstein a Disjunctivist avant la lettre?
Genia Schönbaumsfield
7. Settling a Question: Austin and Disjunctivism
Guy Longworth
Part III: Epistemological Disjunctivism: Prospects and Problems
8. Disjunctivism and Realism — not Naïve but Conceptual
Sonia Sedivy
9. Epistemological Disjunctivism and its Representational Commitments
Craig French
10. Either Epistemological or Metaphysical Disjunctivism
Veli Mitova
11. Neither/Nor
Clayton Littlejohn
12. Disjunctivism and Credence
Ram Neta
13. Disjunctivism, Skepticism, and the First Person
Adrian Haddock
Part IV: Disjunctivism in Other Domains
14. Two Forms of Memory Knowledge and Epistemological Disjunctivism
Joseph Milburn and Andrew Moon
15. Testimonial Disjunctivism
Stephen Wright
16. Epistemological Disjunctivism: Perception, Expression, and Self-Knowledge
Dorit Bar-On and Dustin Johnson
17. Ringers for Belief
Casey Doyle
18. Disjunctivism and Other Minds
Anita Avramides
About the author
Casey Doyle is Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, UK.
Joseph Milburn is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Duncan Pritchard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Eidyn research centre. His monographs include Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (co-authored, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), and Epistemic Angst (2015).
Summary
This is the first volume dedicated solely to the topic of epistemological disjunctivism. It addresses the historical background of epistemological disjunctivism, tackles a number contemporary issues related to epistemological disjunctivism, and extends the framework of epistemological disjunctivism to other forms of knowledge.
