In 2008 we were both interviewed for jobs at the University of Aberdeen. Luca went first, Nikolaj after. After Luca’s interview we had a very brief chat. Luca came out of the interview room—exclaiming, “It was horrible! I did so poorly!” After exchanging a few words about the interview, he announced, “I need a coffee!” and stormed off to caffeinate. Eventually, Luca was hired, Nikolaj was not. However, we stayed in touch and the following year Luca visited Nikolaj at UCLA for an instalment of the Southern California Epistemology Workshop and, in 2010, we co-organized a workshop on formal epistemology at the University of Copenhagen. For several years our paths also crossed at workshops at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. On the basis of these interactions and familiarity with each other’s work we decided to co-edit a collection on non-evidentialist epistemology. This book is the result of that decision.
Luca is grateful to Tommaso Piazza and Kevin McCain for close collaboration in recent years. Nikolaj is grateful to Peter Graham and the community of epistemologists in Asia—including, especially, Davide Fassio, Jie Gao, Masashi Kasaki, and Weng Hong Tang. We are both grateful to Crispin Wright who, over the years, has been a regular interlocutor on the matter of non-evidential warrant and related issues. Finally, we are grateful to Diego Machuca and Duncan Pritchard for thinking that this collection would make for a good fit with their series Brill Studies in Skepticism.
Luca Moretti
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen
Seoul, South Korea