ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 6|16 pages

Dogma, Defeat, and Transmission

chapter 7|18 pages

In Defence of Closure

chapter 8|16 pages

No Spindly Brown Grass

Knowledge, Closure, and Subjective Distinguishability

chapter 9|16 pages

Underdetermination and Closure

Thoughts on Two Sceptical Arguments

chapter 10|27 pages

Closure and Transmission Again