Table Of ContentMetaepistemology
Realism and
Anti-Realism
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Christos Kyriacou • Robin McKenna
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Metaepistemology
Realism and Anti-Realism
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Christos Kyriacou Robin McKenna
University of Cyprus University of Vienna
Nicosia, Cyprus Vienna, Austria
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Acknowledgments
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lent set of essays, and for their assistance throughout the editing process.
Thanks also to Brendan George and April James at Palgrave Macmillan
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Contents
I ntroduction 1
Christos Kyriacou and Robin McKenna
Part I Epistemic Realism 15
The Core Expressivist Manoeuvre 17
Terence Cuneo
Epistemic Reductionism and the Moral- Epistemic Disparity 45
Chris Heathwood
From Moral Fixed Points to Epistemic Fixed Points 71
Christos Kyriacou
Normative Reasons for Mentalism 97
Eva Schmidt
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Epistemic Consequentialism: Haters Gonna Hate 121
Nathaniel Sharadin
Part II Epistemic Anti-realism 145
Knowledge, Reasons, and Errors About Error Theory 147
Charles Côté-Bouchard and Clayton Littlejohn
Constitutivism About Epistemic Normativity 173
Christopher Cowie and Alexander Greenberg
Correctness and Goodness 197
Allan Hazlett
The Genealogy of Relativism and Absolutism 217
Martin Kusch and Robin McKenna
Reasons Primitivism and Epistemic Expressivism 241
Teemu Toppinen
Part III Beyond the Realism/Anti-realism Divide 265
What Anti-realism About Hinges Could Possibly Be 267
Annalisa Coliva
Epistemic Schmagency? 289
A. K. Flowerree
Index 311
Notes on Contributors
Annalisa Coliva is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the
University of California, Irvine. She has published extensively on hinge episte-
mology, its historical origins and on self-knowledge. Her major monographs are
Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (Palgrave 2016), The Varieties of Self-
Knowledge (Palgrave 2015), Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and
Common Sense (Palgrave 2010). Her book, Relativism, co-authored with Maria
Baghramian, is forthcoming with Routledge (2018).
Charles Côté-Bouchard is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. from King’s College London in
2017. His current areas of research are epistemology and ethics. His articles
concerning metaepistemology and epistemic normativity appear in Synthese,
Philosophical Studies, the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Dialogue,
and Manuscrito.
Christopher Cowie is Assistant Professor at Durham University. He was previ-
ously a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He works in metaethics
and moral philosophy. He has published in journals including The Philosophical
Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy
Compass and Synthese.
Terence Cuneo is the Marsh Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the
University of Vermont. He is the author of The Normative Web (Oxford, 2007),
Speech and Morality (Oxford, 2014), Ritualized Faith (Oxford, 2016), and (co-
author of) Understanding Morality (Oxford, forthcoming).
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Description:This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic anti-realists. Epistemic realists think tha
