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Contextualism, Factivity and Closure

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Philosophy Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16155-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-16154-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 27, 2019

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Introduction

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: 1 –8
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“Knowledge” in Context: A Conundrum

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: 9 –27

[Contextualism is the thesis that the truth-conditions of knowledge-ascribing and knowledge-denying sentences can vary depending on certain features of the context of the knowledge attributor. According to a recent objection labelled “the factivity problem”, contextualism, if combined with the...
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The Commitment Towards (a) and (b)

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: 29 –45

[One manner to solve the factivity problem consists of denying that the contextualists are committed to the premises of the conundrum. Thus, accordingly, one might allege that the contextualists are not committed neither to the truth of any specific knowledge ascription like (b), “Oliver knowsO...
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Asymmetrical Knowledge Ascriptions

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: 47 –66

[In the argument of the factivity problem the contradiction seems to follow from the assumption that an asymmetrical knowledge ascription like (c), “Elio knowsE that Oliver knowsO that q”, holds. Here we will scrutinize two different solutions that propose to reconsider the role of this kind of...
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The Fluid View

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: 67 –76

[In chapter four we saw that Brueckner’s and Buford’s solution solves the factivity problem but regrettably saddles contextualism with a statability problem: the anti-sceptical argument of the theory, in fact, turns out to be unknowable and unassertable. In this chapter we will analyse a solution...
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Relationalism

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: 77 –90

[In the first chapter we saw that the principle of factivity and the principle of closure, in order to be efficaciously employed in the argument of the factivity problem, have to be rephrased to account for the contextualist understanding of the semantics of “know”. It could be wondered,...
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Epilogue

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: 91 –94

[The three approaches to the factivity problem that we analysed in this book may be taken as lying on three different understandings of contextualism: minimalistic contextualism (chapter three), moderate contextualism (chapter four and five) and bold contextualism (chapter six). Here we will...
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Correction to: Contextualism, Factivity and Closure

Leardi, Stefano; Vassallo, Nicla

Pages: C1 –C1

[In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections are to be incorporated.]

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