Formal Epistemology Resources
FORMAL EPISTEMOLOGY is a fairly recent field of study in philosophy dating back to the end of the 20th century. This is not to say that formal epistemological studies have not been conducted prior to the late 1990s, but rather that the term introduced to cover the philosophical enterprise was coined around this time. Formal epistemology denotes the formal study of crucial concepts in general or mainstream epistemology, including knowledge, belief and belief- change, certainty, rationality, reasoning, decision, justification, learning, agent interaction, and information processing. The formal tools may be drawn from a wide variety of areas, including logic, probability theory, game theory, decision theory, formal learning theory, and distributed computing, and is thus not simply a purely philosophical province. Its practitioners include philosophers, computer scientists, social scientists, cognitive psychologists, theoretical economists, mathematicians, and theoretical linguists. Here is a repository of formal epistemology resources from Vincent F. Hendricks and collaborators.
MONOGRAPHS
Agency and Interaction: What we are and what we do in Formal Epistemology
Jeffrey Helzner
Vincent F. Hendricks
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Mainstream and Formal Epistemology
Vincent F. Hendricks
New York: Cambridge University Press, January 2006
Paperback, November, 2007
ISBN 0521857899
Winner of CHOICE MAGAZINE OUTSTANDING TITLE 2008
ANTHOLOGIES
A Formal Epistemology Reader
Edited by
Horacio Arló-Costa, Vincent F. Hendricks, Johan van Benthem
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
ISBN 9781107608726 (paperback)
ISBN 9781107001794 (hardback)
Release date / June 2013
Game Theory: 5 Questions
Edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Pelle Guldborg Hansen
Interviews with
Robert Aumann, Johan van Benthem, Cristina Bicchieri, Ken Binmore, Adam Brandenburger, Colin F. Camerer, Alan Grafen, Peter Hammerstein, Sergiu Hart, Ehud Kalai, David M. Kreps, Herve Moulin, Rohit Parikh, Ariel Rubinstein, Larry Samuelson, Thomas C. Schelling, Brian Skyrms, Robert Sugden, H. Peyton Young
April 2007, Automatic Press / VIP
ISBN 87-991013-4-3 (paperback)
Epistemology: 5 Questions
Edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Duncan Pritchard
Interviews with
Horacio Arlo-Costa, Sergei Artemov, Alexandru Baltag, Johan van Benthem, Luc Bovens, Lorraine Code, Fred Dretske, Pascal Engel, Robert Fogelin, Richard Fumerton, Alvin Goldman, Clark Glymour, Alan Hájek, Joseph Halpern, Sven Ove Hansson, Jaakko Hintikka, Wiebe van der Hoek, Martin Kusch, Kevin T. Kelly, Jonathan Kvanvig, Isaac Levi, Rohit Parikh, John Pollock, Krister Segerberg, Ernest Sosa, Wolfgang Spohn, Timothy Williamson, Linda Zagzebski
September 2008, Automatic Press / VIP
ISBN 8792130070 (paperback)
Probability and Statstics: 5 Questions
Edited by
Alan Hájek
Vincent F. Hendricks
Interviews with Nick Bingham, Luc Bovens, Philip Dawid, Terrence Fine, David Freedman, Haim Gaifman, Donald Gillies, Jim Hawthorne, Carl Hoefer, Jim Joyce, Joseph B. Kadane, Isaac Levi, Patrick Maher, Hugh Mellor, Mark J. Schervish, Teddy Seidenfeld, Brian Skyrms, Jan von Plato, Carl Wagner, Sandy Zabell
September 2009, Automatic Press / VIP
ISBN 8792130054 (paperback)
Epistemic Logic: 5 Questions
Edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Olivier Roy
Interviews with Horacio Arlo-Costa, Sergei Artemov, Robert Aumann, Alexandru Baltag, Giacomo Bonanno, Adam Brandenburger, Johan van Benthem, Hans van Ditmarsch, Melvin Fitting, Paul Gochet, Joseph Halpern, Sven Ove Hansson, Amid Heifetz, Jaakko Hintikka, Kevin T. Kelly, Wolfgang Lenzen, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Meyer, Lawrence S. Moss, Rohit Parikh, Hans Rott, Krister Segerberg, Yoav Shoham, John Sowa, Timothy Williamson
August 2010, Automatic Press / VIP
ISBN 978-87-92130-24-2 (paperback)
Social Epistemology: 5 Questions
Edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Duncan Pritchard
Automatic Press / VIP, 2013
Interviews with David Bloor, Richard Bradley, Cristina Bicchieri, C. A. J. Coady, Lorraine Code, Hans van Ditmarsch, Elizabeth Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Steve Fuller, Sanford Goldberg, Alvin Goldman, Stephan Hartmann, James Hawthorne, Philip Kitcher, Martin Kusch, Christian List, Jennifer Lackey, Helen Longino, Richard Moran, Philip Petit, Erik Olsson, Frederick Schmitt, Steven Shapin
Socio-Epistemic Phenomena: 5 Questions
Edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Rasmus Rendsvig
April 2013, Automatic Press / VIP
ISBN 978-87-92130-44-0 (paperback)
Interviews with among others
Cristina Bicchieri, Damon Centola, Mirta Galesic, Stephan Hartmann, David Hirshleifer, James A. Kitts, Timur Kuran, Michael Macy, Erik Olsson, Steven Pinker, Deborah A. Prentice, Cass Sunstein, Ivo Welch
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
8 Bridges Between Mainstream and Formal Epistemology
edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Special issue of Philosophical Studies – An International for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Springer, March 2006
Contributions from H. Arló-Costa, J. van Benthem, L. Bovens, S.O. Hansson, S. Hartmann, V.F. Hendricks, M. Hild, R. Stalnaker, J. Symons H. Wansing
OVERVIEWS
2010. “Agency and Interaction: what we are and what we do in formal epistemology”, with Jeffrey Helzner, Studies in Logic 29, eds. Amitabha Gupta and Johan van Benthem: 29-43. Download in PDF
2013. “Agency and Interaction”, with Jeffrey Helzner, in A Formal Epistemology Reader, eds. Horacio Arlo-Costa, Vincent F. Hendricks, Johan van Benthem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 213: 7-25.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
- 2006.“Epistemic Logic”, with John Symons, entry in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- 2011. “Formal Epistemology”, with Jeffrey Helzner, in Oxford Bibliographies Online. Download in PDF
- 2013. “Formal Epistemology”, forthcoming in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (submitted)
