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Description of Situations = An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology /

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Title/Author:	Description of Situations/ by Nuno Venturinha.
Reminder of title:	An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology /
Author:	Venturinha, Nuno.
Description:	XXIII, 96 p. 43 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Epistemology. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00154-4
ISBN:	9783030001544

Description of Situations = An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology /
Venturinha, Nuno.

Description of SituationsAn Essay in Contextualist Epistemology /[electronic resource] :by Nuno Venturinha. - 1st ed. 2018. - XXIII, 96 p. 43 illus.online resource. - SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,2211-4548. - SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,.

List of Figures and Tables -- Language and Reasoning -- What the World is Made Of -- The Correspondence Theory of Truth -- Reality in Itself -- Unthought Thoughts -- Determinism and Possible Worlds -- Seeking Evidence -- Radical Scepticism -- Transcendentalism -- Bracketing Modality -- Social Dependency -- Moral Matters -- Index of Names.

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.

ISBN: 9783030001544

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-00154-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

671538
Epistemology.

LC Class. No.: BD143-237

Dewey Class. No.: 120

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