Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth

by Gerhard Preyer

2020-11-25 01:08:47

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 ... Read more
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 ithas 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 starthere. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.9 in
Print pages416
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date August 19, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780199267415
Gerhard Preyer is Professor of Sociology at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. he is editor of the journal Protosociology, and of several books, including Contextualism in Philosophy (with G...

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