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 Note

Kevin McCain and Scott Stapleford

Part I: The Nature of Epistemic Duty

1 Epistemic Duty, Justified Belief, and Voluntary Control

Matthias Steup

2 Believing Badly: Doxastic Duties are not Epistemic Duties

Miriam Schleifer McCormick

3 Evading the Doxastic Puzzle by Deflating Epistemic Normativity

Luis Oliveira

4 Epistemic Tension and Epistemic Duty: A Rossian Account

Mark T. Nelson

5 Intellectual Responsibility and the Scope of the Will

Robert Audi

6 We Are Like American Robins

Ema Sullivan-Bissett

Part II: Epistemic Duties of Individuals

7 Bound by the Evidence

Scott Stapleford and Kevin McCain

8 Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias

Lindsay Rettler and Bradley Rettler

9 Robust Justification

Jonathan Matheson

10 Ought to Believe vs. Ought to Reflect

Anthony Robert Booth

11 Wisdom, Open-Mindedness, and Epistemic Duty

Sharon Ryan

12 On What We Should Believe (And When (and Why) We Should Believe What We Know We Should Not Believe)

Clayton Littlejohn

13 The Normative Ground of the Evidential Ought

Anne Meylan

Part III: Social Epistemic Duties

14 Responsibility for Fundamentalist Belief

Rik Peels

15 Trust, Testimony, and Reasons for Belief

Rebecca Wallbank and Andrew Reisner

16 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 Stammers

17 Dialectical Responsibility and Regress Skepticism

Scott Aikin

18 Epistemic Duties Regarding Others

Jennifer Lackey