Description of Situations An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology /

• Main Author: Venturinha, Nuno (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy.; Philosophy of Language.; Moral Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.

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...

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.