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Epistemic Contextualism as a Theory of Primary Speaker Meaning 1
Author(s) -
HARMAN GILBERT
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00068.x
Subject(s) - contextualism , epistemology , meaning (existential) , philosophy , semantics (computer science) , philosophy of language , linguistics , psychology , metaphysics , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , programming language
Jason Stanley’s Knowledge and Practical Interests is a brilliant book, combining insights about knowledge with a careful examination of how recent views in epistemology fit with the best of recent linguistic semantics. Although I am largely convinced by Stanley’s objections to epistemic contextualism, I will try in what follows to formulate a version that might have some prospect of escaping his powerful critique.