Applied Epistemology

Applied epistemology brings the tools of contemporary epistemology to bear on particular issues of social concern. While the field of social epistemology has flourished in recent years, there has been far less work on how theories of knowledge, justification, and evidence may be applied to concrete questions, especially those of ethical and political significance. This volume f...

Applied epistemology brings the tools of contemporary epistemology to bear on particular issues of social concern. While the field of social epistemology has flourished in recent years, there has been far less work on how theories of knowledge, justification, and evidence may be applied to concrete questions, especially those of ethical and political significance. This volume fills this gap in the current literature by bringing together leading philosophers in a broad range of areas in applied epistemology. The potential topics in applied epistemology are many and diverse, and this volume focuses on seven central issues, some of which are general while others are far more specific: epistemological perspectives; epistemic and doxastic wrongs; epistemology and injustice; epistemology, race, and the academy; epistemology and feminist perspectives; epistemology and sexual consent; and epistemology and the internet. Some of the chapters in this volume contribute to, and further develop, areas in social epistemology that are already active, while others open up entirely new avenues of research. All of the contributions aim to make clear the relevance and importance of epistemology to some of the most pressing social and political questions facing us as agents in the world.

Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, the Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Studies and Episteme. Most of her research is in the area of social epistemology and recent projects have addressed credibility and false confessions, eyewitness testimony and epistem...

Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, the Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Studies and Episteme. Most of her research is in the area of social epistemology and recent projects have addressed credibility and false confessions, eyewitness testimony and epistemic agency, and epistemic reparations. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution as well as the Young Epistemologist Prize, and she has received grants and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

Contributors:

Rima Basu, Claremont McKenna College

Bianca Crewe, University of British Columbia

Emmalon Davis, University of Michigan

Kristie Dotson, Michigan State University

Mylan Engel Jr., Northern Illinois University

Karen Frost-Arnold, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Alexander A. Guerrero, Rutgers University

Hanna Gunn, University of California, Merced

Tempest Henning Vanderbilt University

Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, University of British Columbia

Veronica Ivy, College of Charleston

Quill Kukla, Georgetown University

Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University

Lauren Leydon-Hardy, Amherst College

Hallie Liberto, University of Connectibut

Michael Patrick Lynch, University of Connectibut

Aidan McGlynn, University of Edinburgh

José Medina , Northwestern University

Charles W. Mills, City University of New York

C. Thi Nguyen, University of Utah

Geoff Pynn, Elgin Community College

Ezgi Sertler, Butler University