The Epistemology of Experts: New Essays

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts. It features original essays from leading epistemologists on this timely topic.

Peter Brössel is Jr.-Professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-University Bochum, where he also directs the Emmy Noether Research Group ’From Perception to Belief and Back Again.’ His research interests include epistemology, philosophy of science, language, and mind, focusing on rational reasoning, confirmation theory, perception, language learning, and social aspects of reasoning.

Anna-Maria Asunta Eder is a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, specializing in epistemology, philosophy of science, and metaphilosophy. Her research addresses topics such as epistemic normativity and rationality, the social dimensions of rational reasoning, and conceptual engineering.

Thomas Grundmann is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cologne. From 2016 until 2018, he was president of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. He has published numerously on topics from general epistemology (skepticism, epistemic concepts, apriori knowledge), philosophical methodology, and applied social epistemology, e.g., disagreement and epistemic authority.