"This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It features cutting-edge research from leading scholars on one of the main areas of contemporary epistemology and neighbouring fields. The contributors examine the concept of suspension from various perspectives, encompassing historical and contemporary approaches, its nature and normativity, and its relationship to other philosophical concepts as well as interdisciplinary applications. They address a wide range of crucial issues, including but not limited to: What is the nature of suspension? Can we suspend judgment voluntarily? Is there more than one kind of suspension? What are the norms for suspension? What is the relation between epistemic and prudential norms for suspension? What is thelogic of suspension and how can we formally represent different forms of suspension? What is the role of suspension for rational decision? What is the relation of suspension of judgment and abstention of action? What is the relation between suspension and inquiry? How does suspension relate to doubt, ignorance, and indecision? How does the Pyrrhonian notion of suspension of judgment relate to modern accounts? Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and history of philosophy"--
This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It examines the concept of suspension from various perspectives, encompassing historical and contemporary approaches, its nature and normativity, and its relationship to other philosophical concepts as well as interdisciplinary applications.
This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It features cutting-edge research from leading scholars on one of the main areas of contemporary epistemology and neighboring fields. The contributors examine the concept of suspension from various perspectives, encompassing historical and contemporary approaches, its nature and normativity, and its relationship to other philosophical concepts as well as interdisciplinary applications. They address a wide range of crucial issues, including but not limited to:
- What is the nature of suspension?
- Can we suspend judgment voluntarily?
- Is there more than one kind of suspension?
- What are the norms for suspension?
- What is the relation between epistemic and prudential norms for suspension?
- What is the logic of suspension and how can we formally represent different forms of suspension?
- What is the role of suspension for rational decision?
- What is the relation of suspension of judgment and abstention of action?
- What is the relation between suspension and inquiry?
- How does suspension relate to doubt, ignorance, and indecision?
- How does the Pyrrhonian notion of suspension of judgment relate to modern accounts?
Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and history of philosophy.
Introductory Note: Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond Alexandra Zinke
and Verena Wagner Part 1: Nature and Concept of Suspension
1. The
Availability of Further Evidence and Agentialism about Suspension Matthew
McGrath
2. Committing to Indecision: A Taxonomy of Suspension of Judgment
Verena Wagner
3. How Should We Ascribe the Third Stance? Luis Rosa
4.
Suspending Judgment and Withdrawing Belief Hans Rott
5. A Higher-Order Credal
Account of Suspension (and Other Doxastic Attitudes) Anna-Maria Eder and
Peter Brössel Part 2: Theoretical and Practical Norms of Suspension
6.
Normative Relations Between Ignorance and Suspension of Judgement: A
Systematic Investigation Anne Meylan and Thomas Raleigh
7. The Normative
Profile of Agnosticism. Some Case Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Filippo Ferrari and Gioia Susanna
8. Rational Inquiry, Suspension, and
Stability Alexandra Zinke
9. Dogmatic Withholding: Confessions of a Serial
Offender Chris Tucker
10. Suspensive Wronging Chris Ranalli Part 3: History
of Suspension
11. TBD: Sextus Empiricus on Inquiry and Suspension of Judgment
Justin Vlasits
12. Suspending Judgement on Gods and on the Meaningfulness of
Religious Language in Pyrrhonism Joachim Bromand
13. Assent and Suspension of
Assent to Kataleptic Impressions Johanna Helene Schmitt Part 4: Applications
of Suspension
14. Suspension in Default Logic Daniela Schuster
15. How can
Decision Models Decide to not Decide? Modeling Suspension in Fast-and-Frugal
Trees (FFTs) Hansjörg Neth and Jelena Meyer
16. The Ecological Rationality of
Rule Packages Igor Douven
Verena Wagner is professor of philosophy of mind at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. She works at the intersection of philosophy of mind and epistemology. Her publications include Agnosticism as Settled Indecision (2022, Philosophical Studies), Bracketing (2025, Philosophical Issues) and three articles in Routledge collections: Epistemic Dilemma and Epistemic Conflict (2021), Zetetic Seemings and Their Role in Inquiry (2023) and Zetetic Norms: A Puzzle for Evidentialism? (2025).
Alexandra Zinke is professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on epistemology and the philosophy of logic. She is the author of The Metaphyics of Logical Consequence (Klostermann, 2018) and has published articles in Erkenntnis, The Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.
