Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions can vary with the context of the attributor. Baumann discusses problems and objections, and provides an extension of contextualism beyond epistemology.
Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions can vary with the context of the attributor. Baumann discusses problems and objections, and provides an extension of contextualism beyond epistemology.
Peter Baumann is a Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He went to University in Göttingen (Germany) and Paris (Sorbonne; IEP). He received all of his degrees at the University of Göttingen. He has taught at the University of Göttingen, Hamburg University (Germany), Swarthmore College (USA), the University of Aberdeen (UK), and Wooster College (USA). From 1993-1995, he was a visiting fellow at the Philosophy Department at Stanford University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Arguments * 1: The Argument From Cases: Standard Contextualism and Standards Contextualism * 2: The Argument from Reliability: Reference Classes and Another Aspect of Contexts * 3: The Argument from Luck: The Role of Descriptions * Problems and Extensions * 4: Scepticism, Lotteries and Contextualist Solutions * 5: Cross-Context Attributions and the Knowability Problem: Does Contextualism Lead to a Contradiction? * 6: Beyond Knowledge: Action and Responsibility * Objections and Alternatives * 7: Objections * 8: Alternatives?
* Introduction * Arguments * 1: The Argument From Cases: Standard Contextualism and Standards Contextualism * 2: The Argument from Reliability: Reference Classes and Another Aspect of Contexts * 3: The Argument from Luck: The Role of Descriptions * Problems and Extensions * 4: Scepticism, Lotteries and Contextualist Solutions * 5: Cross-Context Attributions and the Knowability Problem: Does Contextualism Lead to a Contradiction? * 6: Beyond Knowledge: Action and Responsibility * Objections and Alternatives * 7: Objections * 8: Alternatives?
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