Contextualism and a Puzzle about Seeing

Contextualist solutions to skeptical puzzles have recently been subjected to various criticisms. In this paper, I will defend contextualism against an objection pressed by Jason Stanley. In the course of doing so, I argue that either semantic context-sensitivity is very widespread in natural languag...

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Published inPhilosophical studies Vol. 134; no. 1; pp. 53 - 63
Main Author Neta, Ram
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer 01.05.2007
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Ascriptions
Astronomical objects
Barns
Binding
Contextualism
Epistemological contextualism
Logical form
Natural language
Philosophy
Semantics
Sofas
Tomatoes
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Summary:Contextualist solutions to skeptical puzzles have recently been subjected to various criticisms. In this paper, I will defend contextualism against an objection pressed by Jason Stanley. In the course of doing so, I argue that either semantic context-sensitivity is very widespread in natural language, or else Stanley's "binding" test for the presence of hidden variables in logical form is not a good test.
ISSN:0031-8116
1573-0883
DOI:10.1007/s11098-006-9021-8