Epistemic Autonomy

Jonathan Matheson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida. He is the author of The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement and co-editor (with Rico Vitz) of The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social.Kirk Lougheed is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the University of Pretoria with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He has published over 25 articles in such places as Philosophia, Ratio, and Synthese. He is the author of The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement (2020), The Axiological Status of Theism and Other Worldviews (2020), and the editor of Four Views on the Axiology of Theism: What Difference Does God Make? (2020).

• Introduction: Puzzles Concerning Epistemic Autonomy Jonathan Matheson and Kirk LougheedPart I: The Nature of Epistemic Autonomy 1. Epistemic Autonomy and Externalism J. Adam Carter 2. Autonomy, Reflection, and EducationShane Ryan 3. The Realm of Epistemic EndsCatherine Elgin 4. Professional Philosophy Has an Epistemic Autonomy ProblemMaura Priest Part II: Epistemic Autonomy and Paternalism 5. Norms of Inquiry, Student-Led Learning, and Epistemic Paternalism Robert Mark Simpson 6. Persuasion and Intellectual Autonomy Robin McKenna 7. What’s Epistemic about Epistemic Paternalism? Liz Jackson Part III: Epistemic Autonomy and Epistemic Virtue & Value 8. Intellectual Autonomy and Intellectual Interdependence Heather Battaly 9. The Virtue of Epistemic Autonomy Jonathan Matheson 10. Understanding and the Value of Intellectual Autonomy Jesús Vega-Encabo 11. Epistemic Myopia Chris Dragos12. Intellectual Autonomy and its Vices Alessandra Tanesini 13. Gaslighting, Humility, and the Manipulation of Autonomy Javier González de Prado Part IV: Epistemic Autonomy & Social Epistemology 14. Epistemic Autonomy for Social Epistemologists: The Case of Moral Inheritance Sarah McGrath 15. Epistemic Autonomy and the Right to be ConfidentSanford Goldberg 16. We Owe it to Others to Think for OurselvesFinnur Dellsén 17. Epistemic Self-Governance and Trusting the Word of Others: Is There a Conflict?Elizabeth Fricker