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Epistemic contextualism and linguistic behavior [PDF]

, 2017
Epistemic contextualism is the theory that “knows” is a context sensitive expression. As a linguistic theory, epistemic contextualism is motivated by claims about the linguistic behavior of competent speakers.
Buckwalter, Wesley
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Expressivism, Relativism and the analytic equivalence test [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field 2009, 252), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished.
Maria J. Frapolli, Maria J. Frapolli, Neftalí eVillanueva Fernández   +2 more
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Epistemic Character Damage and Normative Contextualism [PDF]

Recent proposals for a “critical character epistemology” attend to the ways in which environments, institutions, social practices, and relationships promote the development of epistemic vice whilst acknowledging that the contexts of differently situated ...
Monypenny, Alice
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Knowledge, chance, and contrast [PDF]

, 2012
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw the rise of contextualist theories of knowledge ascriptions (and denials). Contextualists about ‘knows’ maintain that utterances of the form ‘S knows p’ and ‘S doesn’t know p’ resemble utterances such as ‘Peter is ...
Dimmock, Paul
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Relativism in Context

Aufklärung, 2019
The present paper introduces four fundamental issues within the framework of epistemic relativism: (a) the lack of precision in the concept of knowing; (b) the changes in the demands between context of use and of evaluation; (c) the violation of the real
Rodrigo Laera
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The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance.
Alexander Almér, Gunnar Björnsson
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Introduction—What is Epistemic Contextualism? [PDF]

, 2017
Introduces contextualism about knowledge ascriptions, and provides a brief summary of the contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Epistemic ...
Ichikawa, Jonathan Jenkins
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Knowing What Things Are: A Response to My Critics [PDF]

Manuscrito
In this response to my commentators, I address several challenges to the erotetic account of knowing what things are, developed in Knowing What Things Are: An Inquiry-Based Approach.
ANDRÉ J. ABATH
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Contextualism and Testimony

Análisis Filosófico, 2014
It has recently been argued that Subject-Sensitive Invariantism conflicts with an attractive testimonial principle of transmission. One might think, given the differences between Subject-Sensitive Invariantism and Contextualism, the latter would not be ...
Leandro De Brasi
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Forum on Jerrold Levinson, "Contemplating Art"

Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience, 2014
Jerrold Levinson’s Contemplating Art provides the readers with a variety of heterogeneous topics and issues. The discussants who took part in the Forum about Levinson’s book chose four different “tracks” dealt with, offering four different reflections ...
ed. by M. Rotili, with J. Levinson, A. Bertinetto, M. Di Monte, F. Focosi, L. Giombini
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