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Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 121
EAN: 9780199267408
ISBN: 0199267405
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 02, 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contemporary epistemologists take seriously the thesis that epistemic vocabulary is context-sensitive. This thesis is of course a semantic claim, so it has brought epistemologists into contact with work on context in semantics by philosophers of language. This volume brings together the debates, in a set of twelve specially written essays representing the latest work by leading figures in the two fields. All future work on contextualism will start here.
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Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Andy Egan, Michael Glanzberg, John Hawthorne, Ernest Lepore, Peter Ludlow, Peter Pagin, Georg Peter, Paul M. Pietroski, Gerhard Preyer, Jonathan Schaffer, Jason Stanley, Brian Weatherson, Timothy Williamson
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Rating: - Contextualism in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Language
Any utterance of a sentence occurs within a context. The speaker and the listener have certain presuppositions, a given background. Most sentences are embedded in a discussion, speech, an argumentation, or a paragraph. Contextualism in epistemology maintains that whether one knows is relative to the context of the sentence token.
Twelve essays and an introduction by the editors scrutinize contextualism in epistemology and in the philosophy of language. The debate about contextualism and its ... Read More
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