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    Knowledge and Presuppositions by Blome-Tillmann, Michael;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 22 May 2014

    • ISBN 9780199686087
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages210 pages
    • Size 223x145x18 mm
    • Weight 400 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Michael Blome-Tillmann presents an innovative account of epistemic contextualism, based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions. He shows how the theory can resolve sceptical paradoxes and puzzles, and illuminate concerns central to epistemology and philosophy of language.

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    Knowledge and Presuppositions develops a novel account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions. According to Blome-Tillmann, knowledge attributions are sensitive to what is pragmatically presupposed at the context of ascription. The resulting theory--Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism (PEC)--is simple and straightforward, yet powerful enough to have far-reaching and important consequences for a variety of hotly debated issues in epistemology and philosophy of language.

    In this book, Blome-Tillmann first develops Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism and then explores its ability to resolve various sceptical paradoxes and puzzles. Blome-Tillmann also defends PEC against familiar and widely discussed philosophical and linguistic objections to contextualism. In the final chapters of the book PEC is employed to illuminate a variety of concerns central to contemporary discussions of epistemological issues, such as Gettier cases, Moorean reasoning, the nature of evidence, and other current problems and puzzles.

    The book is outstanding. It is a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the semantics of knowledge claims ... I recommend it enthusiastically.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    General Introduction
    Outline of the Book
    Knowledge and Presuppositions
    The Sceptical Puzzle
    Objections and Replies
    Linguistic Issues
    Further Puzzles
    Closure and Moorean Reasoning
    Bibliography
    Index

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