Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense

by Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form "S knows that p" can vary with the context of the attributor. The first part of the book examines arguments for contextualism and develops Baumann's version. The first chapter deals with the argument from cases and ordinary usage; the following two chapters address "theoretical"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198754310
• ISBN13: 9780198754312
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"