Lecture: “Epistemic Contextualism” by Dr. Ahmadreza Hemmati Moghaddam

Epistemic contextualism is a new view in epistemology whose emergence was motivated by an attempt to solve the problem of skepticism. Epistemic contextualism is a view about the truth conditions of epistemic sentences; sentences such as "S knows that P" and "S does not know that P." This view represents a kind of linguistic turn in epistemology. The contextualist intends to solve epistemological problems by using the meaning and semantics of epistemic sentences. Epistemic contextualism can be considered a combination of three claims: epistemological, semantic, and pragmatic.

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Epistemic Contextualism

Dr. Ahmadreza Hemmati Moghaddam

Institute for Research in Analytic Philosophy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences

Language, Cognition, and Reality Workshop

October 2009

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Two Articles by Ahmadreza Hemmati Moghaddam on "Epistemic Contextualism":

Epistemic Contextualism and the Semantics of Epistemic Sentences

Context-Sensitive Invariantism of the Knowing Subject and Epistemic Contextualism

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