A priori perceptual entitlement, knowledge‐first

Abstract

Correspondence MonaSimion,COGITOEpistemology ResearchCentre,University ofGlasgow. Email:mona.simion@glasgow.ac.uk 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.