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"This volume collects new work on epistemic entitlement partly motivated by Tyler Burge's and Crispin Wright's seemingly identical distinctions between two forms of warrant: entitlement and justification. But despite nomenclature, Burge and Wright are engaged in different projects. Recognizing that we cannot provide a non-question begging evidential reply to the sceptic, Wright seeks an a priori, non-evidential, rational right to accept and claim to know cornerstone propositions. He calls these rights epistemic entitlements. Epistemic justifications are evidential warrants, contributors to knowledge. Tyler Burge does not engage the sceptic. Instead, he assumes knowledge and investigates its structure. Burge's two core notions are warrant and reasons. Warrants are exercises of belief-forming competences that are good routes to truth and knowledge. A reason is a proposition with a mode that contributes to an explanation of the belief-worthiness of a belief for the individual. A justification is a warrant with reasons. An entitlement is a warrant without reasons. The volume begins with a substantial chapter by Burge. Burge discusses the functional structure of epistemic norms, the cas

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Author

Peter J. Graham (editor), Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen (editor)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191781940

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities