Epistemic Entitlement

Edited by Peter J. Graham and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Leading epistemologists address fundamental questions about our place in the world
Substantial introduction gives a compelling overview of epistemic entitlement
Original chapters explore in detail the nature and the extent of our knowledge
Connects questions of epistemic entitlement with other key considerations in contemporary epistemology
Includes a major new essay by Tyler Burge, a leader in this field

Epistemic Entitlement

Edited by Peter J. Graham and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Description

For most of the twentieth century, philosophers have explored the nature and extent of our knowledge-especially our knowledge of the world grounded in sense-perceptual experience. Can we be sure that our experience of the world is enough to ground our knowledge of an external reality? Are our everyday beliefs about our world warranted well enough for knowledge? What if we're all in The Matrix? This volume collects cutting-edge essays, written by leading philosophers, which address these fundamental questions about our place in the world. Through sustained reflection on two kinds of warrants--entitlements and justifications--they all seek to understand the nature and extent of our knowledge. Even if we were not able to justify our knowledge of the external world, we are nevertheless entitled to our view of external reality.

Epistemic Entitlement

Edited by Peter J. Graham and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Part I. Engaging Burge's Project
1. Introduction and Overview: Two Entitlement Projects, Peter J. Graham, Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen, Zachary Bachman, and Luis Rosa
2. Entitlement: The Basis of Empirical Warrant, Tyler Burge
3. Perceptual Entitlement and Scepticism, Anthony Brueckner and Jon Altschul
4. Epistemic Entitlement Its Scope and Limits, Mikkel Gerken
5. Why Should Warrant Persist in Demon Worlds?, Peter J. Graham
Part II. Extending the Externalist Project
6. Epistemic Entitlement and Epistemic Competence, Ernest Sosa
7. Extended Entitlement, Adam Carter and Duncan Pritchard
8. Moorean Pragmatics, Social Comparisons and Common Knowledge, Allan Hazlett
9. Internalism and Entitlement to Rules and Methods, Joshua Schecter
Part III. Engaging Wright's Project
10. Full Bloodied Entitlement, Martin Smith
11. Pluralist Consequentialist Anti-Scepticism, Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen
12. Against (Neo-Wittensteinian) Entitlements, Annalisa Coliva
13. The Truth Fairy and the Indirect Consequentialist, Daniel Elstein and Carrie S. I. Jenkins
14. Knowledge for Nothing, Patrick Greenough

Epistemic Entitlement

Edited by Peter J. Graham and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Author Information

Peter J. Graham, University of California, Riverside,Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, Yonsei University, Seoul

Peter J. Graham is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Riverside. He works primarily in epistemology, publishing on perceptual and testimonial entitlement, testimonial knowledge, and scepticism. He is currently working on the connection between epistemic entitlement and intellectual virtue. His articles have appeared in Mind, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophia, and various collections and anthologies. Together with Miranda Fricker, David Henderson, and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen he is a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology (Routledge, 2018).

Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Veritas Research Center at Underwood International College, Yonsei University. His main areas of research concern truth, epistemology, and metaphysics. His articles have appeared in journals including Nous, Analysis, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Issues, Synthese and Erkenntnis. He is the co-editor of Epistemic Pluralism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates (OUP, 2013), and New Waves in Truth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Contributors:

Jon Altschul, Loyola University New Orleans
Zachary Bachman, Sam Houston State University
Anthony Brueckner, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tyler Burge, University of California, Los Angeles
Adam Carter, University of Glasgow
Annalisa Coliva, University of California, Irvine
Mikkel Gerken, University of Southern Denmark
Daniel Elstein, University of Leeds
Peter J. Graham, University of California, Riverside
Patrick Greenough, University of St. Andrews
Allan Hazlett, Washington University in St. Louis
Carrie S. I. Jenkins, University of British Columbia
Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen, Yonsei University
Duncan Pritchard, University of California, Irvine / University of Edinburgh
Luis Rosa, University of Cologne
Joshua Schecter, Brown University
Martin Smith, University of Edinburgh
Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University-New Brunswick