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The Necessity of Interdisciplinary Interaction between Epistemology and History in Examining the Philosophical Bases of Historical Knowledge [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2015 History as a science has different functions in its individual, social and cultural senses that epistemologically support other paradigms in different fields of the humanities.
Z. Siyamiyan Gorji, S. Moosavi Siyani
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Epistemic Disagreements: A Solution for Contextualists
Studia Philosophica Estonica, 2013 My paper aims to account for the possibility of disagreements concerning what we know; for clearly, people disagree about what they know. More precisely, my goal is to explain how a contextualist theory of knowledge attributions can explain the existence
Giovanni Mion
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New Horizons for a Theory of Epistemic Modals [PDF]
, 2019 Recent debate over the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic modals has focused on intuitions about cross-contextual truth-value assessments. In this paper, we advocate a different approach to evaluating theories of epistemic modals. Our strategy focuses
Khoo, Justin, Phillips, Jonathan
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Pragmatics in Epistemology: Analyzing Pragmatic Encroachment vs. Epistemic Purism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2019 Epistemological orthodoxy is a purist one in the sense that it permits only truth-related factors to be relevant to whether or not true belief amounts to knowledge. Contrary to this orthodoxy, ‘Pragmatic Encroachment’ argues that embracing fallibilism we
zeinab salari, Ebrahim Azadegan
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Pluralism about Knowledge [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper I consider the prospects for pluralism about knowledge, that is, the view that there is a plurality of knowledge relations. After a brief overview of some views that entail a sort of pluralism about knowledge, I focus on a particular kind ...
Berit Brogaard +34 more
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Defending Standards Contextualism [PDF]
, 2015 It has become more common recently for epistemologists to advocate the pragmatic encroachment on knowledge, the claim that the appropriateness ofknowledge ascriptions is dependent on the relevant practical circumstances.
Hudson, Robert
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Assertion, action, and context [PDF]
, 2020 A common objection to both contextualism and relativism about knowledge ascriptions is that they threaten knowledge norms of assertion and action. Consequently, if there is good reason to accept knowledge norms of assertion or action, there is good ...
Hannon, Michael, McKenna, Robin
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Rape Culture and Epistemology [PDF]
, 2021 We consider the complex interactions between rape culture and epistemology. A central case study is the consideration of a deferential attitude about the epistemology of sexual assault testimony.
Crewe, Bianca +1 more
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Epistemic contextualism defended [PDF]
Synthese, 2014 Epistemic contextualists think that the extension of the expression ‘knows’ (and its cognates) depends on and varies with the context of utterance. In the last 15 years or so this view has faced intense criticism. This paper focuses on two sorts of objections.
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Contextualism about Epistemic Reasons [PDF]
, 2017 We will call sentences like these ‘normative epistemic reasons ascriptions’ (‘ERAs’ for short), since they are used to ascribe or deny reasons that normatively support beliefs. For simplicity, we will focus on unmodified ERAs like those above; talk of ‘good’/‘bad’ reasons, ‘strong’/‘weak’ reasons, etc., introduces further complexities.
Sylvan, Kurt, Fogal, Daniel
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