Experience as Reason for Beliefs

Abstract

Let us begin by emphasizing some of the points raised at the end of the previous chapter. It was pointed out that although attempts that seek to identify a normative process simulating the experience—belief transition were on the right track, their main problem was to identify an appropriate normative framework that respects both the content-sensitivity of the normativity of epistemic justification and the possibility of perceptual error as well as the fact that experiences can justify beliefs in cases of hallucinations. In this chapter, we shall present an account that, it will be argued, can accommodate these concerns.