The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism

Cover Art for 9780367370640, The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism by Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
ISBN: 9780367370640
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 23 September, 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Epistemic contextualism is a recent and hotly debated topic in philosophy. Contextualists argue that the language we use to attribute knowledge can only be properly understood relative to a specified context. How much can our knowledge depend on context? Is there a limit and if so where does it lie? What is the relationship between epistemic contextualism and fundamental topics in philosophy such as objectivity truth and relativism? The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-seven chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into eight parts: Data and motivations for contextualism Methodological issues Epistemological implications Doing without contextualism Relativism and disagreement Semantic implementations Contextualism outside ‘knows’ Foundational linguistic issues. Within these sections central issues debates and problems are examined including contextualism and thought experiments and paradoxes such as the Gettier problem and the lottery paradox; semantics and pragmatics; the relationship between contextualism relativism and disagreement; and contextualism about related topics like ethical judgments and modality. The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields such as linguistics and philosophy of mind.

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