Epistemological contextualism /
Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Series: | Grazer philosophische Studien ;
69. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160066 |
| Summary: | Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist theories of knowledge it might be the case that a particular subject knows a proposition in one context but fails to know that same proposition in another context-while the only thing that has changed is the context.Of the extant contextualist theories of knowledge, attributer contextualism (that is, t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 142379141X 9781423791416 9789042016279 9042016272 |
| ISSN: | 0165-9227 ; |