Overview
- Analyzes an inconsistency within epistemic contextualism known as the factivity problem
- Details different solutions to the factivity problem developed by key philosophers
- Identifies three main approaches used to solve this problem
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Is Epistemic Contextualism an Inconsistent Theory
- Solving the Factivity Problem
- Epistemic Contextualism
- semantic assumptions of epistemic contextualism
- Wolfgang Freitag
- Alexander Dinges
- Anthony Brueckner
- Christopher Buford
- Michael Ashfield
- Martin Montminy
- Wes Skolits
- Peter Baumann
- Baumann’s relationalism
- Brueckner and Buford on Epistemic Contextualism
About this book
This book analyses an inconsistency within epistemic contextualism known as the factivity problem. It also provides key insights into epistemic contextualism, an important innovation in contemporary epistemology, enabling readers to gain a better understanding of the various solutions to the factivity problem. As the authors demonstrate, each explanation is based on a different interpretation of the problem.
Divided into seven chapters, the book offers comprehensive coverage of this topic, which will be of major interest to philosophers engaged in epistemology and the philosophy of language. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 presents the most common understanding of epistemic contextualism and its semantic basis. It also clarifies the epistemological implications of the theory’s semantic assumptions. This chapter also explains the main argument of the factivity problem.
The next four chapters discuss the respective solutions proposed by Wolfgang Freitag, Alexander Dinges, Anthony Brueckner and Christopher Buford, Michael Ashfield, Martin Montminy and Wes Skolits, and Peter Baumann. Stefano Leardi and Nicla Vassallo highlight the similarities and commonalities, identifying three main approaches to the factivity problem.
Chapter 7 provides a brief overview of the solutions proposed to solve the factivity problem and presents an outline of the conclusions reached in the book.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contextualism, Factivity and Closure
Book Subtitle: A Union That Should Not Take Place?
Authors: Stefano Leardi, Nicla Vassallo
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16155-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16154-5Published: 08 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16155-2Published: 26 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 94
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations