Epistemic Entitlement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Hannes Ole Matthiessen

   Pages 1-8

3. The Right to Believe

   • Hannes Ole Matthiessen

   Pages 9-58

4. The Social Character of Entitlements

   • Hannes Ole Matthiessen

   Pages 59-84

5. A Default and Challenge Model of Perceptual Entitlement

   • Hannes Ole Matthiessen

   Pages 85-133

6. Perceptual Knowledge

   • Hannes Ole Matthiessen

   Pages 134-158

7. Perceptual Knowledge and the First-Person Perspective

   • Hannes Ole Matthiessen

   Pages 159-180

8. Concluding Remarks

   • Hannes Ole Matthiessen

   Pages 181-187

9. Back Matter

   Pages 188-206

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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.

• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Perception
• Defeasibility
• Epistemic Entitlement
• bibliography
• environment
• experience
• knowledge

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.

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