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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gerhard Preyer (University of Frankfurt) , Georg Peter (University of Frankfurt)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.632kg ISBN: 9780199267415ISBN 10: 0199267413 Pages: 412 Publication Date: 11 August 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter: The Limits of Contextualism I. Contextualism in Epistemology 2: Peter Ludlow: Contextualism and the New Linguistic Turn in Epistemology 3: Kent Bach: The Emperor's New 'Knows' 4: Timothy Williamson: Knowledge, Context, and the Agent's Point of View 5: Jonathan Schaffer: What Shifts? Thresholds, Standards, or Alternatives? 6: Andy Egan, John Hawthorne, and Brian Weatherson: Epistemic Modals in Context II. Compositionality, Meaning, and Context 7: Francois Recanati: Literalism and Contextualism: Some Varieties 8: Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore: A Tall Tale: In Defence of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism 9: Jason Stanley: Semantics in Context 10: Paul M. Pietroski: Meaning before Truth 11: Peter Pagin: Compositionality and Context 12: Michael Glanzberg: Presuppositions, Truth Values, and Expressing PropositionsReviewsThis collection is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the relevance of context to certain central areas of epistemological and/or linguistic debate. It contains eleven original essays by an impressive list of authors, including several essays that are quickly becoming quite well known. Between them, the papers cover a wide and representative range of arguments, issues and positions arising in connection with the prospects for and problems facing contextualism. Mind These essays are all concerned to some degree with the extent to which, and the ways in which, the truth conditions of sentences are context dependent ... The topics range from epistemic contextualism to linguistic compositionality and semantic presupposition ... The collection is ... interesting and profitably read. Wayne A. Davis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |