Epistemic Contrastivism

• Authors: Rafał Palczewski

Title variants

PL

Kontrastywizm epistemiczny

EN

Epistemic Contrastivism

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

According to contrastivism in epistemology - advocated chiefly by Jonathan Schaffer - the knowledge relation is not binary (s knows that p) but ternary (s knows that p rather than q). Thus knowledge ascriptions are contrast-sensitive. The aim of this paper is to portray, investigate and assess the details of this view. In the first three sections I focus mainly on arguments for contrastivism. Section fourth is devoted to the contrastivist solution to the skeptical puzzle. In the last three sections I present several problems for contrastivism as well as three main binary explanations for contrast-sensitivity.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 105-130

Dates

published

2009-12-01

Contributors

author

Rafał Palczewski