Overview
- Approaches classic epistemological problems from a context-sensitive perspective
- Explores in a fresh way the works of key thinkers in epistemology
- Introduces a new contextualist thought-experiment for dealing with moral questions
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 which we understand ourselves and what surrounds us.
In the process of his investigation, the author explores, in a fresh way, the works of key thinkers in epistemology. These include Bernard Bolzano, René Descartes, Gottlob Frege, Edmund Husserl, Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, but also contemporary authors such as Stewart Cohen, Keith DeRose, David Lewis, Duncan Pritchard, Ernest Sosa and Charles Travis. Some of the topics covered are attributions of knowledge, the correspondence theory of truth, objectivity and subjectivity, possible worlds, primary and secondary evidence, scepticism, transcendentalism and relativism. The book also introduces a new contextualist thought-experiment for dealing with moral questions.
Contextualism has received a great deal of attention in contemporary epistemology. It has the potential to resolve a number of issues that traditional epistemological approaches cannot address. In particular, a contextualist view opens the way to an understanding of those cognitive processes that require situational information to be fully grasped. However, contextualism poses serious difficulties in regard to epistemic invariance. This book offers readers an innovative approach to some fundamental questions in this field.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Description of Situations
Book Subtitle: An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology
Authors: Nuno Venturinha
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00154-4
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: 978-3-030-00153-7Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00154-4Published: 30 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 96
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Moral Philosophy, History of Philosophy