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Contextualism in Philosophy
Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth
Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter
412 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926741-5
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Paperback
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11 August 2005
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- 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.Readership:
Scholars and students of epistemology, philosophy of language, and semantics
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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
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"This collection is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the relevance of context to certain central areas of epistemological and/or linguistic debate. It contains eleven original essays by an impressive list of authors, including several essays that are quickly becoming quite well known. Between them, the papers cover a wide and representative range of arguments, issues and positions arising in connection with the prospects for and problems facing contextualism." - Mind "These essays are all concerned to some degree with the extent to which, and the ways in which, the truth conditions of sentences are context dependent ... The topics range from epistemic contextualism to linguistic compositionality and semantic
presupposition ... The collection is ... interesting and profitably read." - Wayne A. Davis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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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
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