Contextualisms in Epistemology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brendel, Elke (Editor), Jäger, Christoph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.

Contextualism has become one of the leading paradigms in contemporary epistemology. According to this view, there is no context-independent standard of knowledge, and as a result, all knowledge ascriptions are context-sensitive. Contextualists contend that their account of this analysis allows us to...