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Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense

Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense

Baumann, Peter

Hardcover

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 0198754310
ISBN13: 9780198754312
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 20 2016
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, 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 examines arguments for contextualism and develops Baumann's version. The first chapter deals with the argument from cases and ordinary usage; the following two chapters address theoretical arguments, from reliability and from luck. The second part of the book discusses the problems contextualism faces, to which it must respond, and provides an extension of contextualism beyond epistemology. Chapter 4 discusses lottery-scepticism and argues for a contextualist response. Chapter 5 is dedicated to a homemade problem for contextualism: a threat of inconsistency. Baumann argues for a way out and for a version of contextualism that can underwrite this solution. Chapter 6 proposes a contextualist account of responsibility: The concept of knowledge is not the only one which allows for a contextualist analysis and it is important to explore structural analogies in other areas of philosophy. The third part of the book is focused on some major objections to contextualism and alternative views, namely subject-sensitive invariantism, contrastivism and relativism.

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