Epistemic Entitlement: The Right to Believe

by H. Matthiessen

Overview

What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349490455
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hannes Ole Matthiessen has studied and taught the subject of philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, Fribourg and Berlin. His interests include epistemology, the philosophy of perception and Early Modern Philosophy. He is currently working on Thomas Reid's geometry of visibles.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Right to Believe 3. The Social Character of Entitlements 4. A Default and Challenge-Model of Perceptual Entitlement 5. Perceptual Knowledge 6. Perceptual Knowledge and the First Person Perspective 7. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index