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.
Table of Content
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 IndexAbout 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.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 206 ● ISBN 9781137414984 ● File size 0.7 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3533298 ● Copy protection Social DRM