| Reviews |
| - 'it is [one] of this collection's virtues that, by bringing together some at time quite divergent views on the relevance of context to the topics in questions, it reveals such issues to be genuinely pressing and in need of greater focused discussion.' - Patrick Rysiew, Mind Journal
- 'the essays in Contextualism in Philosophy
provide novel and significant contributions in areas immediately related to the contextualist approach.
' - Stefano Predelli, Linguist Philos
- 'This collection is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the relevance of context to certain central areas of epistemological and/or linguistic debate. It contains eleven original essays by an impressive list of authors, including several essays that are quickly becoming quite well known. Between them, the papers cover a wide and representative range of arguments, issues and positions
arising in connection with the prospects for and problems facing contextualism.' - Mind
- 'These essays are all concerned to some degree with the extent to which, and the ways in which, the truth conditions of sentences are context dependent ... The topics range from epistemic contextualism to linguistic compositionality and semantic presupposition ... The collection is ... interesting and profitably read.' - Wayne A. Davis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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| Description | | - Epistemologists and philosophers of language debate a highly topical issue
- Brilliant international line-up of contributors
- This will be the
book on contextualism
- Genuine, fruitful interaction between the two fields
| | 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. |
Readership: Scholars and students of epistemology, philosophy of language, and semantics
| Contents |
1.
The Limits of Contextualism
,
Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter
I. Contextualism in Epistemology
2.
Contextualism and the New Linguistic Turn in Epistemology
,
Peter Ludlow
3.
The Emperor's New 'Knows'
,
Kent Bach
4.
Knowledge, Context, and the Agent's Point of View
,
Timothy Williamson
5.
What Shifts? Thresholds, Standards, or Alternatives?
,
Jonathan Schaffer
6.
Epistemic Modals in Context
,
Andy Egan, John Hawthorne, and Brian Weatherson
II. Compositionality, Meaning, and Context
7.
Literalism and Contextualism: Some Varieties
,
Francois Recanati
8.
A Tall Tale: In Defence of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
,
Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore
9.
Semantics in Context
,
Jason Stanley
10.
Meaning before Truth
,
Paul M. Pietroski
11.
Compositionality and Context
,
Peter Pagin
12.
Presuppositions, Truth Values, and Expressing Propositions
,
Michael Glanzberg
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
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 |
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