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Paper   IPM / Philosophy / 12773
School of Analytic Philosophy
  Title:   Burge on Perceptual Entitlement
  Author(s):  Hamid Vahid
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Metaphilosophy
  No.:  3
  Vol.:  43
  Year:  2012
  Pages:   187-203
  Publisher(s):   Blackwell Publishing
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
This article is concerned with the question of the nature of the epistemic liaison between experience and belief. The problem, often known as the problem of nondoxastic justification, is to see how a causal transition between experience and belief could assume a normative dimension, that is, how perceptual experience serves to justify beliefs about the world. Currently a number of theories have been proposed to resolve this problem. The article considers a particular solution offered by Tyler Burge which, among other things, introduces a new type of positive epistemic status or warrant, namely, entitlement. It contends that Burge's notion of entitlement cannot be of any help in resolving the problem of nondoxastic justification. Burge's account is compared and contrasted with other, similar, approaches to the problem of nondoxastic justification.


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