Epistemic Entitlement

The Right to Believe
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-41497-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3747 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matthiessen, H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.