Epistemic Contextualism
ISBN: 9780198754312
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy Metaphysics/ Epistemology;

Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form "S knows that p" can vary with the context of the attributor. The first part of the book examines arguments for contextualism and develops Baumann's version. It begins by dealing with the argument from cases and ordinary usage, and then addresses "theoretical" arguments, from reliability andfrom luck. The second part of the book discusses the problems contextualism faces, to which it must respond, and provides an extension of contextualism beyond epistemology. The third part of the book isfocused on some major objections to contextualism and alternative views, namely subject-sensitive invariantism, contrastivism and relativism.

Peter Baumann is a Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He went to University in Göttingen (Germany) and Paris (Sorbonne; IEP). He received all of his degrees at the University of Göttingen. He has taught at the University of Göttingen, Hamburg University (Germany), Swarthmore College (USA), the University of Aberdeen (UK), and Wooster College (USA). From 1993-1995, he was a visiting fellow at the Philosophy Department at StanfordUniversity.

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