Contextualism, assessor relativism, and insensitive assessments
Författare och institution:
Gunnar Björnsson (Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori); Alexander Almér (Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori)
Publicerad i:
Logique et Analyse, ( December 2009 )
ISSN:
0024-5836
Publikationstyp:
Artikel, refereegranskad vetenskaplig
Publiceringsår:
2009
Språk:
engelska
Fulltextlänk:
Sammanfattning (abstract):
Recently, contextualism about epistemic modals and predicates of taste have come under fire from advocates of assessment relativistic analyses. Contextualism, they have argued, fails to account for what we call "felicitous insensitive assessments". In this paper, we provide one hitherto overlooked way in which contextualists can embrace the phenomenon by slightly modifying an assumption that has remained in the background in most of the debate over contextualism and relativism. Finally, we briefly argue that the resulting contextualist account is at least as plausible as the relativist alternative and should be carefully considered before contextualism is abandoned for relativism.
Ämne (baseras på Högskoleverkets indelning av forskningsämnen):
HUMANIORA ->
Filosofi, etik och religion ->
Filosofi ->
Teoretisk filosofi
Filosofi, etik och religion ->
Filosofi ->
Teoretisk filosofi
Nyckelord:
contextualism, relativism, epistemic modals, taste, John MacFarlane, Andy Egan,
Postens nummer:
106019
Posten skapad:
2010-01-08 18:44