TY - JOUR
T1 - Epistemic comparativism
T2 - A contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions
AU - Schaffer, Jonathan
AU - Szabó, Zoltán Gendler
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Knowledge ascriptions seem context sensitive. Yet it is widely thought that epistemic contextualism does not have a plausible semantic implementation. We aim to overcome this concern by articulating and defending an explicit contextualist semantics for 'know,' which integrates a fairly orthodox contextualist conception of knowledge as the elimination of the relevant alternatives, with a fairly orthodox "Amherst" semantics for A-quantification over a contextually variable domain of situations. Whatever problems epistemic contextualism might face, lack of an orthodox semantic implementation is not among them.
AB - Knowledge ascriptions seem context sensitive. Yet it is widely thought that epistemic contextualism does not have a plausible semantic implementation. We aim to overcome this concern by articulating and defending an explicit contextualist semantics for 'know,' which integrates a fairly orthodox contextualist conception of knowledge as the elimination of the relevant alternatives, with a fairly orthodox "Amherst" semantics for A-quantification over a contextually variable domain of situations. Whatever problems epistemic contextualism might face, lack of an orthodox semantic implementation is not among them.
KW - Context
KW - Epistemic contextualism
KW - Knowledge
KW - Semantics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84894612650&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11098-013-0141-7
DO - 10.1007/s11098-013-0141-7
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-8116
VL - 168
SP - 491
EP - 543
JO - Philosophical Studies
JF - Philosophical Studies
IS - 2
ER -