Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-75507-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Epistemology

This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It features cutting-edge research from leading scholars on one of the main areas of contemporary epistemology and neighboring fields. The contributors examine 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. They address a wide range of crucial issues, including but not limited to:

- What is the nature of suspension?

- Can we suspend judgment voluntarily?

- Is there more than one kind of suspension?

- What are the norms for suspension?

- What is the relation between epistemic and prudential norms for suspension?

- What is the logic of suspension and how can we formally represent different forms of suspension?

- What is the role of suspension for rational decision?

- What is the relation of suspension of judgment and abstention of action?

- What is the relation between suspension and inquiry?

- How does suspension relate to doubt, ignorance, and indecision?

- How does the Pyrrhonian notion of suspension of judgment relate to modern accounts?

Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and history of philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Verena

Zinke, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

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 Autor(innen)

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.