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This volume brings together new research on the topic of epistemic closure from both leading philosophers and emerging voices in epistemology. It connects epistemic closure principles to related themes in epistemology such as scepticism, dogmatism, evidentialism, epistemic logic, and modal epistemology.
Epistemic closure is of central importance to contemporary epistemology, so much so that no epistemology is complete without an answer to the question of where it stands on the issue. The chapters in this book touch on the central themes of closure and transmission and argue for and against different closure and transmission principles. The contributors address issues such as whether knowledge and justification are closed under deductive entailment; whether scepticism can be properly contained by restricting closure principles; whether justification for a set of premises can fail to transmit across inference to a conclusion; Moore's Paradox; and which theories of knowledge—contextualism, contrastivism, or relevant alternatives epistemology—emerge from denying closure.
New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology.
Contents
Introduction Matthew Jope and Duncan Pritchard
1. Intuitive Closure, Transmission Failure, and Doxastic Justification Matthew Jope
2. Modest Foundations for Perceptual Knowledge Krista Lawlor
3. Closure, Warrant Transmission, and Defeat Mona Simion
4. Modal Epistemology and the Logic of Counterfactuals Timothy Williamson
5. The Skeptical Paradox and the Generality of Closure (and other principles) Yuval Avnur
6. Dogma, Defeat, and Transmission Christoph Kelp
7. In Defence of Closure Duncan Pritchard
8. No Spindly Brown Grass: Knowledge, Closure, and Subjective Distinguishability Genia Schönbaumsfeld
9. Underdetermination and Closure: Thoughts on Two Sceptical Arguments Martin Smith
10. Closure and Transmission Again Crispin Wright
