Preyer, Gerhard / Peter, Georg (eds.)

Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth

Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005-09-29
Format: Taschenbuch
Umfang: 416
ISBN: 0199267413
EAN: 9780199267415
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In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contemporary epistemologists take seriously the thesis that epistemic vocabulary is context-sensitive. This thesis is of course a semantic claim, so it has brought epistemologists into contact with work on context in semantics by philosophers of language. This volume brings together the debates, in a set of twelve specially written essays representing the latest work by leading figures in the two fields. All future work on contextualism will start here.

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Contextualism in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Language

Any utterance of a sentence occurs within a context. The speaker and the listener have certain presuppositions, a given background. Most sentences are embedded in a discussion, speech, an argumentation, or a paragraph. Contextualism in epistemology maintains that whether one knows is relative to the context of the sentence token.

Twelve essays and an introduction by the editors scrutinize contextualism in epistemology and in the philosophy of language. The debate about contextualism and its consequences is continued in "Contextualism in Philosophy" on a high level. Although, I think, no contextual matter will be settled with these papers, they drive the debate to new fields, the reader gets a deep insight in topical issues.

My exclamation marks in the table of contents for the contributions most illuminating for me are at Kent Bach: "The Emperor's New 'Knows'", Jonathan Schaffer: "What Shifts? Thresholds, Standards, or Alternatives?", and Jason Stanley: "Semantics in Context".

If you want to keep up with the current debate in contextualism you have to study this book completely. Caution: it will take some time and effort.