Readership: Scholars and students of epistemology, philosophy of language, and semantics
Edited by Gerhard Preyer, University of Frankfurt, and Georg Peter, University of Frankfurt
"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
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
