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  • The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Vol. 1

    The Case for Contextualism by DeRose, Keith;

    Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Vol. 1

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 5 May 2011

    • ISBN 9780199692255
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 234x167x20 mm
    • Weight 474 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Contextualism has been hotly debated in recent epistemology and philosophy of language. The Case for Contextualism is a state-of-the-art exposition and defense of the contextualist position, presenting and advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view and responding to the most pressing objections facing it.

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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.

    Review from previous edition This volume will be of particular benefit to graduate students and researchers looking to gain initial sympathetic familiarity with contextualism; it is also clear and accessible enough to be suitable for advanced undergraduates. This book will be among the first resources I turn to when students ask for an introduction to "knows" contextualism.

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    Table of Contents:

    Contextualism, Invariantism, Skepticism, and What Goes On in Ordinary Conversation
    The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism
    Assertion, Knowledge, and Context
    Single Scoreboard Semantics
    "Bamboozled by Our Own Words": Semantic Blindness and Some Objections to Contextualism
    Now You Know It, Now You Don't: Intellectualism, Contextualism, and Subject-Sensitive Invariantism
    Knowledge, Assertion and Action: Contextualism vs. Subject-Sensitive Invariantism
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