The case for contextualism.

The case for contextualism.

It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "knowledge" in some ("low-standards") contexts we'll deny is "knowledge" in other (&q...

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Main Author: DeRose, Keith, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2009.
Series:DeRose, Keith, 1962- Knowledge, skepticism, and context ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Contextualism (Philosophy)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Contextualism, Invariantism, Skepticism, and What Goes On in Ordinary Conversation; 2. The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism; 3. Assertion, Knowledge, and Context; 4. Single Scoreboard Semantics; 5. 'Bamboozled by our Own Words': Semantic Blindness and Some Objections to Contextualism; 6. Now You Know It, Now You Don't: Intellectualism, Contextualism, and Subject-Sensitive Invariantism; 7. Knowledge, Assertion, and Action: Contextualism vs. Subject-Sensitive Invariantism; References; Index.

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