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Author Jenkins Ichikawa, Jonathan

Title The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism
Published Georgetown : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (517 pages)
Series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
Routledge handbooks in philosophy.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: what is epistemic contextualism?; PART I Data and motivations; 1 The variability of 'knows': an opinionated overview; 2 The intuitive basis for contextualism; 3 Epistemic contextualism and linguistic behavior; 4 Feminism and contextualism; PART II Methodological issues; 5 Epistemic contextualism and conceptual ethics; 6 Does contextualism hinge on a methodological dispute?; 7 The psychological context of contextualism; 8 What are we doing when we theorize about context sensitivity?
PART III Epistemological implications9 Epistemic contextualism and the shifting the question objection; 10 Skepticism and contextualism; 11 Contextualism and fallibilism; 12 Contextualism and closure; 13 Lotteries and prefaces; 14 Contextualism and knowledge norms; 15 Contextualism and Gettier cases; PART IV Doing without contextualism; 16 'Knowledge' and pragmatics; 17 Loose use and belief variation; 18 Semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism applied to 'knows'; 19 Interest-relative invariantism; PART V Relativism and disagreement; 20 The disagreement challenge to contextualism
21 On disagreement22 Contextualism, relativism, and the problem of lost disagreement; 23 Epistemological implications of relativism; PART VI Semantic implementations; 24 The semantic error problem for epistemic contextualism; 25 Conversational kinematics; 26 'Knowledge' and quantifiers; 27 Gradability and knowledge; PART VII Contextualism outside 'knows'; 28 Moral contextualism and epistemic contextualism: similarities and differences; 29 Contextualism about epistemic reasons; 30 Contextualism about epistemic modals; 31 Contextualism about belief ascriptions; 32 Counterfactuals and knowledge
33 Contextualism about foundationsPART VIII Foundational linguistic issues; 34 The semantics-pragmatics distinction and context-sensitivity; 35 The mind-independence of contexts for knowledge attributions; 36 Index, context, and the content of knowledge; 37 Contextualism in epistemology and relevance theory; Index
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317594697
131759469X