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- Title
STEWART COHEN AND THE CONTEXTUALIST THEORY OF JUSTIFICATION.
- Authors
Moghaddam, Ahmad Reza Hemmati
- Abstract
Epistemic contextualism is a thesis about truth conditions of knowledge ascribed to sentences such as "S knows that p" and "S does not know that p". According to contextualists it is the speaker's context - the one attributing knowledge - that is pertinent to the truth conditions and truth value of knowledge attributions. Thus, in one context a speaker might say "S knows p" while in another context another he/she might say "S does not know p" without any contradiction involved. Cohen's version of contextualism takes justification, rather than knowledge, to come in degrees. I shall argue that Cohen's contextualist theory of justification suffers from several major problems.
- Subjects
EPISTEMICS; GENERAL semantics; LANGUAGE &; logic; THEORY of knowledge; CONTEXTUALISM (Philosophy); COHEN, Stewart; JUSTIFICATION (Ethics)
- Publication
Filozofia, 2011, Vol 66, Issue 4, p347
- ISSN
0046-385X
- Publication type
Article