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Zusatztext 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. Klappentext In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge! understanding! and meaning. Many contemporary epistemologists take seriously the thesis that epistemic vocabulary is context-sensitive. This thesis is of course a semantic claim! so it has brought epistemologists into contact with work on context in semantics by philosophers of language. This volume brings together the debates! in a set of twelve specially written essays representing the latest work by leading figures in the two fields. All future work on contextualism will start here. Contributors: Kent Bach! Herman Cappelen! Andy Egan! Michael Glanzberg! John Hawthorne! Ernest Lepore! Peter Ludlow! Peter Pagin! Georg Peter! Paul M. Pietroski! Gerhard Preyer! Jonathan Schaffer! Jason Stanley! Brian Weatherson! Timothy Williamson Zusammenfassung In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contemporary epistemologists take seriously the thesis that epistemic vocabulary is context-sensitive. This thesis is of course a semantic claim, so it has brought epistemologists into contact with work on context in semantics by philosophers of language. This volume brings together the debates, in a set of twelve specially written essays representing the latest work by leading figures in the two fields. All future work on contextualism will start here. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: 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 Propositions ...
