A priori perceptual entitlement, knowledge‐first. Issue 1 (19th September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Simion, Mona
• Is Part Of: Philosophical issues. Volume 30:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 311
• Page End: 323
• Publication Date: 2020-09-19
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1111/phis.12187
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1533-6077

Abstract

Abstract: Tyler Burge notably offers a truth‐first account of perceptual entitlement in terms of a priori necessary representational functions and norms: on his account, epistemic normativity turns on natural norms, which turn on representational functions. This paper has two aims: first, it criticises Tyler Burge's truth‐first a priori derivation on functionalist and value‐theoretic grounds. Second, it develops a novel, knowledge‐first a priori derivation of perceptual entitlement. According to the view developed here, it is a priori that we are entitled to believe the deliverances of our perceptual belief formation system, in virtue of the latter's constitutive function of generating knowledge.