Theorists writing under the label "contextualism," such as David Lewis. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemic Closure Principle] Reference
Austin, John Langshaw | contextualism, epistemic |. From Wordnik.com. [Situations in Natural Language Semantics] Reference
Naturally, contextualism has elicited many objections. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
Let us distinguish between two elements of contextualism. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
He views contextualism as a theory of knowledge attribution. From Wordnik.com. [Reliabilism] Reference
How, then, do contextualism and the ambiguity response differ?. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
That's another way of saying, sometimes contextualism is overrated. From Wordnik.com. [A Sliver Shines Above Midtown] Reference
In other words, contextualism is a ˜good news, bad news™ theory. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference
Epistemic contextualism (EC) is a recent and hotly debated position. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference
As an advantage of causal contextualism the following might be pointed out. From Wordnik.com. [The Kochen-Specker Theorem] Reference
If contextualism turns out to be true, then many are blind to that, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference
(Hence this view's sometimes being referred to as ˜attributor contextualism™.). From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference
(For defenses of contextualism, see Cohen 1987, 1988; Lewis 1996; DeRose 1992, 1995). From Wordnik.com. [Skepticism] Reference
To Bill, contextualism means designs that partake of a community's character and history. From Wordnik.com. [House] Reference
Both tracking theorists and safe indication theorists defend agent-centered contextualism. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemic Closure Principle] Reference
Nevertheless, a virtue-theoretic approach in epistemology is consistent with contextualism. From Wordnik.com. [Virtue Epistemology] Reference
Some theorists follow this path all the way to Cambridge school contextualism; most do not. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-19] Reference
Henceforth, that will be the view referred to in speaking of (epistemic) contextualism (EC). From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference
Keith DeRose (1999: 188) makes a rather similar move in defending contextualism in epistemology. From Wordnik.com. [Reliabilism] Reference
In fact, it seems even worse if contextualism about the meaning of theoretical terms is adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Structural Realism] Reference
According to contextualism, it's possible to articulate a more satisfying reply to the BIV argument. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
And contextualism allows us to preserve the sense that in such cases each of the two speakers is speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference
This objection (let us call it the replacement objection) is based on a misunderstanding of contextualism. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
If all this is right, then embracing contextualism about knowledge attributions is not necessary to answer the skeptic. From Wordnik.com. [Virtue Epistemology] Reference
The other element of contextualism could be called strict context-sensitivity, as opposed to loose context sensitivity. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
Hence, according to contextualism, things fall into place as follows: we know the closure principle whether the meaning of. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
There are two questions we should consider: Is contextualism about knowledge (or justified belief) the correct view to hold?. From Wordnik.com. [Skepticism] Reference
According to another objection, contextualism overemphasizes the importance of the context sensitivity of the word ˜know™. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
Hence contextualism, is, notwithstanding initial appearance, just as much about knowledge itself as is the ambiguity response. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
According to one, what's wrong with contextualism is that it replaces our interest in knowledge itself with focus on the word ˜know™. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
In answering the first question, it could be argued that contextualism with regard to the attribution of virtually any property is true. From Wordnik.com. [Skepticism] Reference
So, the answer to the first question about the truth of contextualism seems to be: contextualism about knowledge attributions is correct. From Wordnik.com. [Skepticism] Reference
¦ it is not true that contextualism holds that the standards for knowledge change with context. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference
On contextualism in Descartes, see Newman (2004). From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Literary contextualism. From Wordnik.com. [Socrates] Reference
Neither is contextualism. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemology] Reference
“contextualism”. From Wordnik.com. [Sorites Paradox] Reference
(2) Endorse a kind of contextualism. From Wordnik.com. [The Kochen-Specker Theorem] Reference
Korta, Kepa and John Perry, forthcoming-b, "Radical minimalism, moderate contextualism". From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatics] Reference
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