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Epistemic Contextualism: A Normative Approach [PDF]
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2012 AbstractIn hisKnowledge andPracticalInterestsJasonStanley argues that the view he defends, which he calls interest‐relative invariantism, is better supported by certain cases than epistemic contextualism. In this article I argue that a version of epistemic contextualism that emphasizes the role played by the ascriber's practical interests in ...
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Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2014 My aim in this paper is to motivate and defend a version of epistemic contextualism; a version, that is, of what came to be called attributor or ascriber contextualism. I will begin by outlining, in the first part, what I take to be the basic idea of and
Nikola Kompa
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Un desafío al contextualismo epistémico
Tópicos, 2014 An adequate theory of knowledge attribution sentences must face the Cartesian Skeptical Challenge. Epistemic Contextualism offers an attractive solution to the problem. This is considered to be one of its principal virtues. However, as soon as we ask for
Ignacio Vilaró
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Analiza i Egzystencja, 2018 On types of coffee. DeRose's contextualism as an anti-sceptical strategy Semantic contextualism is often used in order to offer solutions for problems in other branches of philosophy, including epistemology.
Tomasz Szubart
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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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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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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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The Disappearance of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2019 Keith DeRose’s new book The Appearance of Ignorance is a welcome companion volume to his 2009 book The Case for Contextualism. Where latter focused on contextualism as a view in the philosophy of language, the former focuses on how contextualism ...
McKenna, Robin
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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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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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