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Contextualisms in Epistemology / edited by Elke Brendel, Christoph Jäger

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2005
Edition	1st ed. 2005.
Authors	Brendel, Elke editor Jäger, Christoph editor SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00167288		Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks (電子ブック)	9781402038358

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Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	IV, 368 p : online resource
Notes	Contextualist Approaches to Epistemology: Problems and Prospects -- Externalism and Modest Contextualism -- Skepticism, Information, and Closure: Dretske’s Theory of Knowledge -- What’s Wrong with Contextualism, and a Noncontextualist Resolution of the Skeptical Paradox -- Contextualism and the Skeptic: Comments on Engel -- How to Be an Anti-Skeptic and a Noncontextualist -- Are Knowledge Claims Indexical? -- In Defense of Indexicalism: Comments on Davis -- Keeping the Conversational Score: Constraints for an Optimal Contextualist Answer? -- Knowledge, Reflection and Sceptical Hypotheses -- Inferential Contextualism, Epistemological Realism and Scepticism: Comments on Williams -- Epistemic Contextualism -- Why Epistemic Contextualism Does Not Provide an Adequate Account of Knowledge: Comments on Barke -- A Different Sort of Contextualism -- On the Prospects for Virtue Contextualism: Comments on Greco -- Lotteries and Contexts -- Reply to Baumann -- Defeasibility and the Normative Grasp of Context -- Moral Particularism and Epistemic Contextualism: Comments on Lance and Little -- Stability, Strength and Sensitivity: Converting Belief into Knowledge -- The Stability Theory of Knowledge and Belief Revision: Comments on Rott Contextualism has become one of the leading paradigms in contemporary epistemology. According to this view, there is no context-independent standard of knowledge, and as a result, all knowledge ascriptions are context-sensitive. Contextualists contend that their account of this analysis allows us to resolve some major epistemological problems such as skeptical paradoxes and the lottery paradox, and that it helps us explain various other linguistic data about knowledge ascriptions. The apparent ease with which contextualism seems to solve numerous epistemological quandaries has inspired the burgeoning interest in it. This comprehensive anthology collects twenty original essays and critical commentaries on different aspects of contextualism, written by leading philosophers on the topic. The editors’ introduction sketches the historical development of the contextualist movement and provides a survey and analysis of its arguments and major positions. The papers explore, inter alia, the central problems and prospects of semantic (or conversational) contextualism and its main alternative approaches such as inferential (or issue) contextualism, epistemic contextualism, and virtue contextualism. They also investigate the connections between contextualism and epistemic particularism, and between contextualism and stability accounts of knowledge. Elke Brendel is Professor of Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. She has published numerous articles on logic, epistemology, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of language. She is the author of Die Wahrheit über den Lügner (The Truth About the Liar, 1992), Grundzüge der Logik II – Klassen, Relationen, Zahlen (Foundations of Logic II – Sets, Relations, Numbers, with Wilhelm K. Essler, 1993), and Wahrheit und Wissen (Truth and Knowledge, 1999). Christoph Jäger is Lecturer in Philosophy at Aberdeen University, United Kingdom, and Privatdozent of Philosophy (honorary office) at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He has published numerous articles on epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion. Books: Selbstreferenz und Selbstbewusstsein (Self-reference and Self-knowledge, 1999), Analytische Religionsphilosophie (Analytic Philosophy of Religion, ed., 1998), Kunst und Erkenntnis (Art and Knowledge, ed., with Georg Meggle, 2004), Religion und Rationalität (Religion and Rationality, forthcoming) HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3835-6
Subjects	LCSH:Knowledge, Theory of FREE:Epistemology
Classification	LCC:BD143-237 DC23:120
ID	8000065239
ISBN	9781402038358