Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Blome-Tillmann (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, McGill University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780198716303
ISBN 10: 0198716303
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 16 June 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A very clear, well-structured, informative, and original book about epistemic contextualism... very rich in both scope and ideas... there is no doubt that The Semantics of Knowledge Attributions is a useful tool for those who want to familiarize themselves with the vast literature on 'knowledge'-ascriptions and with the intricate problems that arise in that area, as well as for those steeped in the epistemic debates, urging them to engage with a well-argued for and improved version of epistemic contextualism. * Dan Zeman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
"""A very clear, well-structured, informative, and original book about epistemic contextualism... very rich in both scope and ideas... there is no doubt that The Semantics of Knowledge Attributions is a useful tool for those who want to familiarize themselves with the vast literature on 'knowledge'-ascriptions and with the intricate problems that arise in that area, as well as for those steeped in the epistemic debates, urging them to engage with a well-argued for and improved version of epistemic contextualism."" -- Dan Zeman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"
Author Information
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).
