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9780198716303

The Semantics of Knowledge Attributions

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    9780198716303

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    0198716303

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-09-16
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In this book, Michael Blome-Tillmann offers a critical overview of the current debate on the semantics of knowledge attributions. The book is divided into five parts. Part 1 introduces the reader to the literature on 'knowledge' attributions by outlining the historical roots of the debate and providing an in-depth discussion of epistemic contextualism. After examining the advantages and disadvantages of the view, Part 2 offers a detailed investigation of epistemic impurism (or pragmatic encroachment views), while Part 3 is devoted to a careful examination of epistemic relativism and Part 4 to two different types of strict invariantism (psychological and pragmatic). The final part of the book explores Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism - a version of contextualism that is argued to provide a more powerful and elegant account of the semantics of 'knowledge' attributions than many of its competitors. A clear and precise account is provided of the main principles underlying each view and of how they aim to explain the pertinent data and resolve philosophical puzzles and challenges. The book also provides charts outlining the relations between the positions discussed and offers suggestions for further reading.

Author Biography


Michael Blome-Tillmann, Associate Professor of Philosophy, McGill University

Michael Blome-Tillmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2007. His research is primarily in epistemology and the philosophy of language broadly construed. He is the author of Knowledge and Presuppositions (OUP 2014).

Table of Contents


Introduction
Part I: Epistemic Contextualism
1. Epistemic Contextualism
2. Semantic Implementations
3. Versions of Contextualism
4. Linguistic Objections
5. Philosophical Objections
Part II: Epistemic Impurism
6. Epistemic Impurism
7. Problems and Objections
Part III: Epistemic Relativism
8. Epistemic Relativism
Part IV: Strict Invariantism
9. Psychological Invariantism
10. Pragmatic Invariantism
Part V: Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism
11. The Presupposition Effect
12. Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism
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