Suspension of Judgment, Rationality’s Competition, and the Reach of the Epistemic

This paper is about the boundaries of epistemic normativity. I argue we can understand these better by thinking about which mental states are competitor’s in rationality’s competition. I argue that belief, disbelief, and two kinds of suspension of judgment are competitors. I show that there are non-evidential reasons for suspension of judgment. One upshot is an independent motivation for a certain sort of pragmatist view of epistemic rationality.