STEWART COHEN AND THE CONTEXTUALIST THEORY OF JUSTIFICATION

• Authors: Hemmati Moghaddam Ahmad Reza
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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. The author argues that Cohen's contextualist theory of justification suffers from several major problems.

Keywords

EN

COHEN STEWART; EPISTEMIC CONTEXTUALISM; JUSTIFICATION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 347-352
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hemmati Moghaddam Ahmad Reza

• Ahmad Reza Hemmati Moghaddam, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), School of Analytic Philosophy, Niavaran, Tehran

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA096719