Semantics of Knowledge Attributions

This book offers a critical overview of the current debate on the semantics of knowledge attributions. It examines the main principles underlying the various approaches to the topic and outlines how they aim to explain the pertinent data and resolve philosophical puzzles and challenges.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: Epistemic Contextualism


• 1: Epistemic Contextualism


• 2: Semantic Implementations


• 3: Versions of Contextualism


• 4: Linguistic Objections


• 5: Philosophical Objections


• Part II: Epistemic Impurism


• 6: Epistemic Impurism


• 7: Problems and Objections


• Part III: Epistemic Relativism


• 8: Epistemic Relativism


• Part IV: Strict Invariantism


• 9: Psychological Invariantism


• 10: Pragmatic Invariantism


• Part V: Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism


• 11: The Presupposition Effect


• 12: Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism


• References

About the author

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).

Summary

This book offers a critical overview of the current debate on the semantics of knowledge attributions. It examines the main principles underlying the various approaches to the topic and outlines how they aim to explain the pertinent data and resolve philosophical puzzles and challenges.

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Blome-Tillmann, Michael (Associate Professor of Ph Blome-Tillmann, Blome-Tillmann Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780198716303
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871630-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Semantics & pragmatics