BOOK REVIEW A new graduate reader in formal epistemology Arlo-Costa, Hendricks, van Bentham, Boensvang, and Rendsvig (eds.): Readings in formal epistemology. Dordrecht: Springer, xxiii + 937 pp, $129 HB Conor Mayo-Wilson 1 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 Until the publication of this collection of essays, there were two significant barriers to the growth of formal epistemology. First, instructors lacked a textbook that could be used in graduate seminars. Second, early-career researchers like me lacked a reference book that anthologized the most important contributions to the discipline. This volume fills both gaps. Other than Isaac Levi’s contribution, all of the essays in the book have been published before. In fact, some contributions, e.g., Nozick’s ‘‘Knowledge and Skepticism,’’ have been republished many times. Nonetheless, the editors perform a valuable service in collecting and organizing a set of essays that can provide the dedicated reader with a firm and comprehensive background in formal epistemol- ogy. In particular, this nearly thousand-page volume contains at least one paper devoted to each of the most common frameworks for modeling individual learning, including Bayesianism, belief revision theory, formal learning theory, ranking theory, and various epistemic logics. The final section of the book explores a few issues in social epistemology, i.e., the study of multiple learners interacting. The book contains five parts: (1) Bayesian epistemology, (2) belief change, (3) decision theory, (4) logics of knowledge and belief, and (5) interactive epistemol- ogy. These titles, however, are a bit misleading. Part Two is narrower than its title indicates. Rather than ‘‘belief change,’’ Part Two ought to be called ‘‘belief revision theory’’ with an asterisk noting that Spohn’s article, ‘‘A Survey of Ranking Theory,’’ addresses belief change in a different way. In contrast, Part Four is broader than its title suggests. Several of its papers, including Lewis’ ‘‘Elusive Knowledge’’ and Kelly’s ‘‘Learning Theory and Epistemology,’’ have influenced the develop- ment of epistemology outside of epistemic logic. Holliday (2015), for example, has recently employed epistemic logic to study a host of theories of knowledge, & Conor Mayo-Wilson conormw@uw.edu 1 Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 123 Metascience DOI 10.1007/s11016-017-0173-2