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  title info:
    title: Description of Situations
    sub title: An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology
  name:
    name part: Venturinha, Nuno.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 96 p. 43 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective. The author takes as his point of departure the fact that we are situated beings, more specifically that every single moment in our lives is already given within the framework of a specific context in the midst of which we understand ourselves and what surrounds us. In the process of his investigation, the author explores, in a fresh way, the works of key thinkers in epistemology. These include Bernard Bolzano, René Descartes, Gottlob Frege, Edmund Husserl, Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, but also contemporary authors such as Stewart Cohen, Keith DeRose, David Lewis, Duncan Pritchard, Ernest Sosa and Charles Travis. Some of the topics covered are attributions of knowledge, the correspondence theory of truth, objectivity and subjectivity, possible worlds, primary and secondary evidence, scepticism, transcendentalism and relativism. The book also introduces a new contextualist thought-experiment for dealing with moral questions. Contextualism has received a great deal of attention in contemporary epistemology. It has the potential to resolve a number of issues that traditional epistemological approaches cannot address. In particular, a contextualist view opens the way to an understanding of those cognitive processes that require situational information to be fully grasped. However, contextualism poses serious difficulties in regard to epistemic invariance. This book offers readers an innovative approach to some fundamental questions in this field.
  table of contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Language and Reasoning -- What the World is Made Of -- The Correspondence Theory of Truth -- Reality in Itself -- Unthought Thoughts -- Determinism and Possible Worlds -- Seeking Evidence -- Radical Scepticism -- Transcendentalism -- Bracketing Modality -- Social Dependency -- Moral Matters -- Index of Names.
  note: by Nuno Venturinha.
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Language
  subject:
    topic: Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  classification: BD143-237
  classification: 120
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
  identifier: 9783030001544
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00154-4
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    record creation date: 181030
    record change date: 20191220130319.0
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