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Epistemological Contextualism.
Title:
Epistemological Contextualism.
Author:
Blaauw, Martijn.
ISBN:
9789401201230
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Series:
Grazer Philosophische Studien - Internationale Zeitschrift für Analytische Philosophie, 69 ; v.v. 69

Grazer Philosophische Studien - Internationale Zeitschrift für Analytische Philosophie, 69
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Neo-Mooreanism versus Contextualism -- Living without Closure -- Contesting Contextualism -- Comparing Contextualism and Invariantism on the Correctness of Contextualist Intuitions -- Some Worries for Would-be WAMmers -- Challenging Contextualism -- Contextualism and the Many Senses of Knowledge -- Avoiding the Dogmatic Commitments of Contextualism -- A Contextualist Solution to the Problem of Easy Knowledge -- A Contextualist Solution to the Gettier Problem -- Varieties of Contextualism: Standards and Descriptions -- Contextualism between Scepticism and Common-Sense.
Abstract:
Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist theories of knowledge it might be the case that a particular subject knows a proposition in one context but fails to know that same proposition in another context-while the only thing that has changed is the context.Of the extant contextualist theories of knowledge, attributer contextualism (that is, the type of contextualism that makes the context of the attributer of knowledge crucial in determining whether a subject knows a proposition) has been discussed the most. The papers in the present collection continue this focus on attributer contextualism, and offer a fairly critical treatment of this theory. Nevertheless, a number of papers also outline new types of contextualism. What results is a collection of papers that, though negative towards attributer contextualism, for the most part is sympathetic towards contextualism in general.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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