Author:
DeRose, Keith, 1962-
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009-
Descriptionxiii, 288 ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Contextualism, Invariantism, Skepticism, and What Goes On in Ordinary Conversation -- The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism -- Assertion, Knowledge, and Context -- Single Scoreboard Semantics -- "Bamboozled by Our Own Words": Semantic Blindness and Some Objections to Contextualism -- Now You Know It, Now You Don't: Intellectualism, Contextualism, and Subject-Sensitive Invariantism -- Knowledge, Assertion and Action: Contextualism vs. Subject-Sensitive Invariantism.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Contextualism has been hotly debated in recent epistemology and philosophy of language. The Case for Contextualism is a state-of-the-art exposition and defense of the contextualist position, presenting and advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view and responding to the most pressing objections facing it.
