Can we be sure that our experience of the world is enough to ground our knowledge of an external reality? Are our everyday beliefs about our world warranted well enough for knowledge? This volume presents cutting-edge essays by leading philosophers on these fundamental questions about our place in the world.

Peter J. Graham is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Riverside. He works primarily in epistemology, publishing on perceptual and testimonial entitlement, testimonial knowledge, and scepticism. He is currently working on the connection between epistemic entitlement and intellectual virtue. His articles have appeared in Mind, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophia, and various collections and anthologies. Together with Miranda Fricker, David Henderson, and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen he is a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology (Routledge 2018).
Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Veritas Research Center at Underwood International College, Yonsei University. His main areas of research concern truth, epistemology, and metaphysics. His articles have appeared in journals including Noûs, Analysis, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Issues, Synthese and Erkenntnis. He is the co-editor of Epistemic Pluralism (Palgrave 2017) Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates (Oxford 2013), and New Waves in Truth (Palgrave 2010).

• Part I: Engaging Burge's Project


• 1: Peter J. Graham, Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen, Zachary Bachman, and Luis Rosa: Introduction and Overview: Two Entitlement Projects


• 2: Tyler Burge: Entitlement: The Basis of Empirical Warrant


• 3: Anthony Brueckner and Jon Altschul: Perceptual Entitlement and Scepticism


• 4: Mikkel Gerken: Epistemic Entitlement Its Scope and Limits


• 5: Peter J. Graham: Why Should Warrant Persist in Demon Worlds?


• Part II: Extending the Externalist Project


• 6: Ernest Sosa: Epistemic Entitlement and Epistemic Competence


• 7: Adam Carter and Duncan Pritchard: Extended Entitlement


• 8: Allan Hazlett: Moorean Pragmatics, Social Comparisons and Common Knowledge


• 9: Joshua Schechter: Internalism and Entitlement to Rules and Methods


• Part III: Engaging Wright's Project


• 10: Martin Smith: Full Bloodied Entitlement


• 11: Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen: Pluralist Consequentialist Anti-Scepticism


• 12: Annalisa Coliva: Against (Neo-Wittensteinian) Entitlements


• 13: Daniel Elstein and Carrie S. I. Jenkins: The Truth Fairy and the Indirect Consequentialist


• 14: Patrick Greenough: Knowledge for Nothing