Open AccessSocial Situations and Which Descriptions
Author(s) -
Marcin Lewiński
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
logos and episteme
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-3052
pISSN - 2069-0533
DOI - 10.5840/logos-episteme202011439
Subject(s) - argumentation theory , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , ontology , sociology , social epistemology , point (geometry) , context (archaeology) , social ontology , key (lock) , linguistics , cognitive science , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , mathematics , paleontology , geometry , computer security , biology
In this paper, I approach Venturinha’s ideas on contextual epistemology from the perspective of linguistic practices of argumentation. I point to the “thick” descriptions of social situations as a common context in which our epistemic language-games take place. In this way, I explore promising connections of Venturinha’s work to key concepts in recent speech act theory, social ontology and social epistemology.