Entitlements, good and bad
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Nikolaj Jang Linding Pedersen
Abstract
Crispin Wright has recently introduced a non-evidential notion of warrant, entitlement of cognitive project, as a promising response to certain sceptical arguments that purport to show that we cannot claim any warrant for a wide range of beliefs that we ordinarily take ourselves to possess a warrant for. The basic idea is that, for a given class of cognitive projects, there are certain basic propositions – entitlements – which one is warranted in trusting provided there is no sufficient reason to think them false. Having presented Wright's notion of entitlement and rehearsed the sceptical arguments he invokes the notion to respond to, we proceed to raise what will be referred to as “the generality problem”. The problem raises the question whether entitlements come on the cheap. The good news delivered by entitlement is that it seems to deliver a way of resisting the sceptical conclusion. The bad news, however, is that it also appears to do much more than that by supporting, or providing a foundation for, what we would consider crazy and bizarre cognitive projects.
© Philosophia Press 2006
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- The Dialectic of Perspectivism, II
- Entitlements, good and bad
- Skepticism and the Role of Modest Transcendental Claims
- Justification: Reflexive and/or Discursive?
- The Holism Argument against ‘Modern Philosophy of Mind’
- Emoting and Metaphoring. The Metaphoric Structure of Emotions
- Recognition and Redistribution – A Critical Comment to Nancy Fraser
- Hegels Erbe, Herausgegeben von Christoph Halbig, Michael Quante and Ludvig Siep. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 2004, 434 pp.
- Marcel Quarfood, Transcendental Idealism and the Organism: Essays on Kant. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis – Stockholm Studies in Philosophy 26. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2004. 221 pp.
