Epistemology [[electronic resource] ] : contexts, values, disagreement : proceedings of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein symposium in Kirchberg, 2011 / / Christoph Jäger, Winfried Löffler (eds)

• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (537 p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Knowledge, Theory of
• Altri autori: JägerChristoph LöfflerWinfried
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Contextualism and Invariantism -- Knowledge, Contextualism, and Moorean Paradox / Brendel, Elke -- Context-Sensitivity without Indexicality? / Davis, Wayne A. -- Non-Relativist Contextualism about Knowledge / Willaschek, Marcus -- Knowing about Other Contexts / Baumann, Peter -- Epistemic Variantism and the Factivity of Knowledge / Freitag, Wolfgang -- Explaining Variation in Knowledge by Full Belief / Shackel, Nicholas -- The Contextualist Promise / Schmoranzer, Sebastian -- II. Epistemic Virtues -- Intellectual Virtues and Their Place in Philosophy / Greco, John -- Understanding's Tethers / Elgin, Catherine Z. -- Knowledge as Achievement and the Value Problem / Niederbacher, Bruno -- Apriority and Virtue: How Successful a Relationship? / Miščevič, Nenad -- III. The Nature and Value of Knowledge -- Epistemology without the Concept of Knowledge / Beckermann, Ansgar -- Reliabilism as Explicating Knowledge: A Sketch of an Account / Olsson, Erik J. -- How to Take Truth as a Goal? / David, Marian -- Knowledge as Achievement - Greco's Double Mistake / Piller, Christian -- IV. Testimony -- Norms of Trust, De Re Trust, and the Epistemology of Testimony / Goldberg, Sanford -- Jennifer Lackey on Non-Reductionism: A Critique / Kusch, Martin -- V. Disagreement -- "A Troubled Area". Understanding the Controversy over Screening Mammography for Women Aged 40-49 / Solomon, Miriam -- Is Philosophical Knowledge Possible? / Kornblith, Hilary -- The Significance of Disagreement in Epistemology / Koppelberg, Dirk -- The Role of the Uniqueness Thesis in the Epistemology of Disagreement / Lee, Matthew -- Counterfactual-Peer Disagreement / Munn, Katherine -- Meta-Induction and the Problem of Fundamental Disagreement / Schurz, Gerhard -- Rival Logics, Disagreement and Reflective Equilibrium / Brun, Georg -- VI. Wittgenstein -- The Builders / Williams, Meredith -- First Person Authority without Glamorous Self-Knowledge / Kemmerling, Andreas -- Subjective and Objective Certainty as Regards Knowledge and Action / Kober, Michael -- Zu einigen Bemerkungen Wittgensteins über die Seele / Raatzsch, Richard -- Conjecture, Proof, and Sense in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics / Schroeder, Severin -- Through Pictures to Problems: Cognitive Epistemology and Therapeutic Philosophy / Fischer, Eugen -- Werte und Vernunft in Wittgensteins Spätwerk / Koritensky, Andreas -- Wittgenstein über Gedankenexperimente / Bromand, Joachim -- Wittgenstein, Ethics and Therapy / Harcourt, Edward
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume collects papers that were presented at the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium 2011 in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. They focus on five key debates in contemporary epistemology: Does the term "to know" vary its meaning according to features of the contexts in which it is uttered? What role may "epistemic virtues" play in our cognitive activities? What is the surplus value of having knowledge instead of mere true belief? What is the structure and significance of testimonial knowledge and belief? And when is disagreement rational, especially if it occurs among "epistemi
• Titolo autorizzato: Epistemology
• ISBN: 3-11-032901-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779736403321
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