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The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map. Although it is an old tradition, current technological and social developments have dramatically changed both the questions it faces and the methodology required to answer those questions. Recent developments also make it a particularly important and exciting area for research and teaching in the twenty-first century. The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising entries by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six main parts:

The Internet

Politics

Science

Epistemic institutions

Individual investigators

Theory and practice in philosophy.

Within these sections, the core topics and debates are presented, analyzed, and set into broader historical and disciplinary contexts. The central topics covered include: the prehistory of applied epistemology, expertise and scientific authority, epistemic aspects of political and social philosophy, epistemology and the law, and epistemology and medicine.

Essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, political philosophy, and applied ethics, the Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as law, sociology, and politics.

David Coady is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues (2012), the co-author of The Climate Change Debate: An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry (2013), the editor of Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (2006) and the co-editor of A Companion to Applied Philosophy (2016).

James Chase is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He works on epistemology; philosophical logic, particularly as applied to epistemological issues; and the methodology of analytic philosophy. He is the co-author of Analytic vs Continental (2011) and the co-editor of Postanalytic and Metacontinental (2010).

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The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology

Edited by David Coady and James Chase

Contents

James Chase and David Coady

Paul Smart and Nigel Shadbolt

Karen Frost-Arnold

Hanna Kiri Gunn and Michael P. Lynch

Don Fallis

Daniel Halliday and Helen McCabe

Jason Brennan

Andrea Pitts

Randal Marlin

Stephen John

Robyn Bluhm and Kirstin Borgerson

Daniel Steel

David Coady

Georgi Gardiner

Lisa Warenski

Ben Kotzee

Tim Kenyon

Steve Fuller

Axel Gelfert

Tommaso Bertolotti and Lorenzo Magnani

M R. X. Dentith and Brian L. Keeley

Bryan Frances

Christopher Cowley

Matthew Sharpe

Tommaso Bertolotti is post-doctoral fellow in philosophy and adjunct professor of cognitive philosophy at the University of Pavia, Italy. He also collaborates for research and teaching with the French engineering school Tlcom ParisTech.

Robyn Bluhm is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University, USA. Her research examines inter-related ethical and epistemological issues in medicine and in neuroscience.

Kirstin Borgerson is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Canada. Dr. Borgerson researches and teaches in medical epistemology and medical ethics.

Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of nine books, including When All Else Fails (Princeton University Press, 2018), In Defense of Openness, with Bas van der Vossen (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Against Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2016).

James Chase is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He works on epistemology, philosophical logic, particularly as applied to epistemological issues, and the methodology of analytic philosophy. He is the co-author of