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Metaepistemology Realism and Anti-Realism edited by Christos Kyriacou and Robin McKenna Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy Series Editors Vincent Hendricks University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Duncan Pritchard University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy is a new series of monographs. Each book in the series will constitute the ‘new wave’ of philosophy, both in terms of its topic and the research profile of the author. The books will be concerned with exciting new research topics of particular contemporary interest, and will include topics at the intersection of Philosophy and other research areas. They will be written by up-and-coming young phi- losophers who have already established a strong research profile and who are clearly going to be leading researchers of the future. 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Robin McKenna acknowledges support from the ERC Advanced Grant Project “The Emergence of Relativism” (Grant Number 339382). vii Contents I ntroduction 1 Christos Kyriacou and Robin McKenna Part I Epistemic Realism 15 The Core Expressivist Manoeuvre 17 Terence Cuneo Epistemic Reductionism and the Moral- Epistemic Disparity 45 Chris Heathwood From Moral Fixed Points to Epistemic Fixed Points 71 Christos Kyriacou Normative Reasons for Mentalism 97 Eva Schmidt ix x Contents Epistemic Consequentialism: Haters Gonna Hate 121 Nathaniel Sharadin Part II Epistemic Anti-realism 145 Knowledge, Reasons, and Errors About Error Theory 147 Charles Côté-Bouchard and Clayton Littlejohn Constitutivism About Epistemic Normativity 173 Christopher Cowie and Alexander Greenberg Correctness and Goodness 197 Allan Hazlett The Genealogy of Relativism and Absolutism 217 Martin Kusch and Robin McKenna Reasons Primitivism and Epistemic Expressivism 241 Teemu Toppinen Part III Beyond the Realism/Anti-realism Divide 265 What Anti-realism About Hinges Could Possibly Be 267 Annalisa Coliva Epistemic Schmagency? 289 A. K. Flowerree Index 311 Notes on Contributors Annalisa Coliva is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She has published extensively on hinge epistemology, its historical origins and on self-knowledge. Her major monographs are Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (Palgrave 2016), The Varieties of Self- Knowledge (Palgrave 2015), Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (Palgrave 2010). Her book, Relativism, co-authored with Maria Baghramian, is forthcoming with Routledge (2018). Charles Côté-Bouchard is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. from King’s College London in 2017. His current areas of research are epistemology and ethics. His articles concerning metaepistemology and epistemic normativity appear in Synthese, Philosophical Studies, the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Dialogue, and Manuscrito. Christopher Cowie is Assistant Professor at Durham University. He was previ- ously a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He works in metaethics and moral philosophy. He has published in journals including The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy Compass and Synthese. Terence Cuneo is the Marsh Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Normative Web (Oxford, 2007), Speech and Morality (Oxford, 2014), Ritualized Faith (Oxford, 2016), and (co- author of) Understanding Morality (Oxford, forthcoming). xi