Epistemological contextualism / edited by Martijn Blaauw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blaauw, Martijn.

Series:

Grazer philosophische Studien ; Bd. 69.

Grazer philosophische Studien, 0165-9227 ; v. 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Contextualism (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, t

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0123-4

1-4237-9141-X

OCLC:

714567365