Epistemological contextualism / edited by Martijn Blaauw.

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Blaauw, Martijn

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TextSeries: Grazer philosophische Studien ; 69.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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142379141X
9781423791416
9789042016279
9042016272

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Epistemological contextualism.DDC classification:

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BD161 .E585 2005eb

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Contents:

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

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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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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