Krista Lawlor is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and the author of New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts and Assurance: An Austinian Account of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims.
“Being reasonable is an aspiration for us all, and Krista Lawlor has given us an insightful and nuanced account of what it is—and how it is far more than being simply rational.”—Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame “This book is a marvelous, philosophically rich study of what Lawlor aptly describes as ‘one of the essential fluids in our social machine.’ Philosophers of law, among others, will find the book profoundly rewarding.”—Gideon Yaffe, Yale University “Lively, engaging, witty, and insightful, Krista Lawlor's Being Reasonable is well suited for a general audience.”—Marcia Baron, Indiana University–Bloomington “Lawlor makes an insightful, original, convincing, and extraordinarily clear case for the work that reasonableness is recruited to do in the law, in Rawls’s political philosophy, and in Scanlon’s moral philosophy. Being Reasonable is the finest thing so far written in the rapidly growing field of applied epistemology. It will help the reader to understand the kinds of standards that we apply in the epistemic evaluation of many different kinds of ordinary beliefs, including (especially) beliefs about who did what to whom, and why.”—Ram Neta, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill