Two purposes of knowledge attribution and the contextualism debate

Matthew McGrath

Two purposes of knowledge attribution and the contextualism debate

Matthew McGrath

School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies

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In this chapter, we follow Edward Craig’s (1990) advice: ask what the concept of knowledge does for us and use our findings as clues about its application conditions. What a concept does for us is a matter of what we can do with it, and what we do with concepts is deploy them in thought and language. So, we will examine the purposes we have in attributing knowledge. This chapter examines two such purposes, agent evaluation and informant-suggestion, and brings the results to bear on an important debate about the application conditions of the concept of knowledge—the debate between contextualists and their rivals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Epistemic Evaluation
Subtitle of host publication	Purposeful Epistemology
Editors	David K. Henderson, John Greco
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	138-157
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9780199642632
Publication status	Published - 30 Oct 2015

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