The case for contextualism : knowledge, skepticism, and context
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The case for contextualism : knowledge, skepticism, and context
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 2011, c2009
- v. 1 : pbk
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First published: 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-283) and index
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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 ("high-standards") contexts. But do these varying standards for when ordinary speakers will attribute knowledge, and for when they are in some important sense warranted in attributing knowledge, reflect varying
standards for when it is or would be true for them to attribute knowledge? Or are the standards that govern whether such claims are true always the same? And what are the implications for epistemology if these truth-conditions for knowledge claims shift with context? Contextualism is the view that the
epistemic standards a subject must meet, in order for a claim attributing "knowledge" to her to be true, do vary with context. This has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. In The Case for Contextualism Keith DeRose offers a sustained state-of-the-art exposition and defense of the contextualist position, presenting and advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view and against its "invariantist" rivals, and responding to
the most pressing objections facing contextualism.
Table of Contents
- 1. 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
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