Epistemic contextualism : a defense / Peter Baumann.

This book develops and defends a version of epistemic contextualism, that is, of the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form "S knows that p" can vary with the context of the attributor. The first part of the book is about arguments for contextua...

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Main Author: Baumann, Peter, Ph. D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Arguments ; The argument from cases : standard contextualism and standards contextualism
  • The argument from reliability : the role of reference classes
  • The argument from luck : the role of descriptions
  • Part II. Problems and extensions ; Skepticism, lotteries, and contextualist solutions
  • Cross-context attributions and the knowability problem : does contextualism lead to a contradiction?
  • Beyond knowledge : action and responsibility
  • Part III. Objections and alternatives ; Objections
  • Alternatives?