Contextualism has become one of the leading paradigms in
contemporary epistemology. According to this view, there is no
context-independent standard of knowledge, and as a result, all
knowledge ascriptions are context-sensitive. Contextualists contend
that their account of this analysis allows us to resolve some major
epistemological problems such as skeptical paradoxes and the
lottery paradox, and that it helps us explain various other
linguistic data about knowledge ascriptions. The apparent ease with
which contextualism seems to solve numerous epistemological
quandaries has inspired the burgeoning interest in it.
This comprehensive anthology collects twenty original essays and
critical commentaries on different aspects of contextualism,
written by leading philosophers on the topic. The editorsa (TM)
introduction sketches the historical development of the
contextualist movement and provides a survey and analysis of its
arguments and major positions. The papers explore, inter alia, the
central problems and prospects of semantic (or conversational)
contextualism and its main alternative approaches such as
inferential (or issue) contextualism, epistemic contextualism, and
virtue contextualism. They also investigate the connections between
contextualism and epistemic particularism, and between
contextualism and stability accounts of knowledge.
Contributors include: Antonia Barke, Peter Baumann, Elke
Brendel, Stewart Cohen, Wayne Davis, Fred Dretske, Mylan Engel,
Jr., Gerhard Ernst, Verena Gottschling, John Greco, Thomas
Grundmann, Frank Hofmann, Christoph JAger, Nikola Kompa, Dirk
Koppelberg, Mark Lance, Margaret Little, Lydia Mechtenberg, Hans
Rott, Bruce Russell, GilbertScharifi, and Michael Williams.
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