Epistemic contextualism : a defense /
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| Author / Creator: | Baumann, Peter, 1951- author. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13540127 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense; Copyright ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Arguments ; 1: The Argument from Cases: Standard Contextualism and Standards Contextualism; 1.1 Cases for Contextualism; 1.2 Parameters: Standards; 1.2.1 Evidence, Reliability, Degrees of Belief; 1.2.2 Epistemic Position; 1.2.3 Ruling Out Alternatives; 1.3 Determinants; 1.3.1 Stakes; 1.3.2 Purposes and Intentions; 1.3.3 Conversational Contexts; 1.3.4 Salience; 1.3.5 Determinants for the Other Parameters. Norms and Conventions; 1.4 Conclusion.
- 2: The Argument from Reliability: The Role of Reference Classes2.1 Knowledge and Reliability; 2.2 Reliability and Probability; 2.3 Reliability and Context; 2.3.1 Typing Topics; 2.3.2 Typing Methods; 2.3.3 Extension and Generalization: Reference Classes; 2.3.4 Conclusion; 2.4 Reliability and Modality; 2.5 Conclusion; 3: The Argument from Luck: The Role of Descriptions; 3.1 Luck, Its Varieties, and an Exclusion Claim; 3.2 Lucky Knowledge: Variations on a Case by Russell; 3.3 More Cases; 3.4 Modal Luck; 3.5 Probabilistic Luck; 3.6 Conclusion; Part II: Problems and Extensions.
- 4: Skepticism, Lotteries, and Contextualist Solutions4.1 Traditional Skepticism; 4.2 Lottery Skepticism; 4.3 Knowing Lottery Propositions?; 4.4 Lotteries and Closure; 4.5 A Standard Contextualist Solution; 4.6 Another Contextualist Solution; 4.7 Conclusion; 5: Cross-Context Attributions and the Knowability Problem: Does Contextualism Lead to a Contradiction?; 5.1 Contradictions across Contexts?; 5.2 Even Worse: Moore-Paradoxality and No Neutrality; 5.3 A Problem for Contextualists Only?; 5.4 Knowability Restrictions?; 5.5 The Contextualist Way Out: Contextualist Closure; 5.6 Conclusion.
- 6: Beyond Knowledge: Action and Responsibility6.1 A Puzzle; 6.2 Responsibility; 6.3 Reference Classes Again; 6.4 No Straight Solution; 6.5 Practical Contextualism; Part III: Objections and Alternatives; 7: Objections; 7.1 WAMs; 7.1.1 Thought and Language; 7.1.2 From WAMs to WBMs, and Back Again; 7.1.3 Conclusion; 7.2 Cappelen and Lepore's Three Tests; 7.3 More Linguistic Objections; 7.4 Cases, Again; 7.5 More Problems and Questions; 7.5.1 Complexity; 7.5.2 Normativity and Arbitrariness; 7.5.3 Error, Blindness, and the Possibility of Communication; 7.5.4 One Last Smaller Problem.
- 8: Alternatives?8.1 Subject-Sensitive Invariantism; 8.1.1 Some Questions about Stakes; 8.1.2 SSI on Factors and Cases (Again); 8.1.3 Other Problems; 8.2 Contrastivism; 8.2.1 Knowledge without Contrasts; 8.2.2 More Relata for the Third Slot; 8.2.3 More Relativization; 8.2.4 Conclusion; 8.3 Relativism; 8.3.1 Relative Truth, Monadic Truth, and Direct Expressibility; 8.3.2 But Is It Truth?; 8.3.3 Other Problems?; 8.4 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.