Contextualism in Philosophy

Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-926741-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 623 g

Epistemologists and philosophers of language debate a highly topical issue
- Brilliant international line-up of contributors
- This will be the book on contextualism
- Genuine, fruitful interaction between the two fields

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.

Contents
- 1 Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter: The Limits of Contextualism
- I. Contextualism in Epistemology
- 2 Peter Ludlow: Contextualism and the New Linguistic Turn in Epistemology
- 3 Kent Bach: The Emperor's New 'Knows'
- 4 Timothy Williamson: Knowledge, Context, and the Agent's Point of View
- 5 Jonathan Schaffer: What Shifts? Thresholds, Standards, or Alternatives?
- 6 Andy Egan, John Hawthorne, and Brian Weatherson: Epistemic Modals in Context
- II. Compositionality, Meaning, and Context
- 7 Francois Recanati: Literalism and Contextualism: Some Varieties
- 8 Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore: A Tall Tale: In Defence of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
- 9 Jason Stanley: Semantics in Context
- 10 Paul M. Pietroski: Meaning before Truth
- 11 Peter Pagin: Compositionality and Context
- 12 Michael Glanzberg: Presuppositions, Truth Values, and Expressing Propositions

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of epistemology, philosophy of language, and semantics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preyer, Gerhard

Peter, Georg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Gerhard Preyer, University of Frankfurt and Georg Peter, University of Frankfurt

Contributors: Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter Peter Ludlow Kent Bach Timothy Williamson Jonathan Schaffer Andy Egan, John Hawthorne, and Brian Weatherson Francois Recanati Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore Jason Stanley Paul M. Pietroski Peter Pagin Michael Glanzberg