Kevin McCain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His published works include: Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge, 2014), The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (2016), and with Kostas Kampourakis Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (2019).Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University, Fredericton. He is the author of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), coauthor (with Tyron Goldschmidt) of Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2016) and Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, forthcoming), and coauthor (with Lorne Falkenstein and Molly Kao) of Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (Routledge, forthcoming).

• Introductory NoteKevin McCain and Scott StaplefordPart I: The Nature of Epistemic Duty1 Epistemic Duty, Justified Belief, and Voluntary ControlMatthias Steup2 Believing Badly: Doxastic Duties are not Epistemic Duties Miriam Schleifer McCormick3 Evading the Doxastic Puzzle by Deflating Epistemic NormativityLuis Oliveira4 Epistemic Tension and Epistemic Duty: A Rossian AccountMark T. Nelson5 Intellectual Responsibility and the Scope of the WillRobert Audi6 We Are Like American Robins Ema Sullivan-BissettPart II: Epistemic Duties of Individuals7 Bound by the EvidenceScott Stapleford and Kevin McCain8 Epistemic Duty and Implicit BiasLindsay Rettler and Bradley Rettler9 Robust JustificationJonathan Matheson10 Ought to Believe vs. Ought to ReflectAnthony Robert Booth11 Wisdom, Open-Mindedness, and Epistemic DutySharon Ryan12 On What We Should Believe (And When (and Why) We Should Believe What We Know We Should Not Believe)Clayton Littlejohn13 The Normative Ground of the Evidential OughtAnne MeylanPart III: Social Epistemic Duties 14 Responsibility for Fundamentalist BeliefRik Peels15 Trust, Testimony, and Reasons for BeliefRebecca Wallbank and Andrew Reisner16 When the Personal Becomes Political: How Do We Fulfil Our Epistemic Duties Relative to the Use of Autobiographical Stories in Public Debates?Lisa Bortolotti and Sophie Stammers17 Dialectical Responsibility and Regress SkepticismScott Aikin18 Epistemic Duties Regarding OthersJennifer Lackey

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