Gerhard Preyer / Georg Peter (eds.)

Contextualism in Philosophy

Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth
Herausgeber: Peter, Georg; Preyer, Gerhard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 623g
• ISBN-13: 9780199267415
• ISBN-10: 0199267413
• Artikelnr.: 21942344

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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