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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Altri autori: Blaauw, Martijn
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Serie:Grazer philosophische Studien ; 69.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160066
Sommario:
  • Table of Contents; Introduction; Neo-Mooreanism versus Contextualism; Living without Closure; Contesting Contextualism; Comparing Contextualism and Invariantism on the Correctness of Contextualist Intuitions; Some Worries for Would-be WAMmers; Challenging Contextualism; Contextualism and the Many Senses of Knowledge; Avoiding the Dogmatic Commitments of Contextualism; A Contextualist Solution to the Problem of Easy Knowledge; A Contextualist Solution to the Gettier Problem; Varieties of Contextualism: Standards and Descriptions; Contextualism between Scepticism and Common-Sense