NDLI: Knowledge, conservatism, and pragmatics

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Dimmock, Paul Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The apparent contextual variability exhibited by ‘knows’ and its cognates—brought to attention in examples like Keith DeRose’s Bank Case—poses familiar problems for conservative forms of invariantism about ‘knows’. The paper examines and criticises a popular response to those problems, one that involves appeal to so-called ‘pragmatic’ features of language. It is first argued, contrary to what seems to have been generally assumed, that any pragmatic defence faces serious problems with regard to our judgments about retraction. Second, the familiar objection that the pragmatic effects at issue do not seem to be cancellable is considered. Advocates of the pragmatic defence have suggested that cancellability concerns can be dealt with fairly readily. It is shown both that their recent attempts to respond to those concerns, and some other possible attempts, are unsuccessful. Finally, it is argued that the popular relevance-based accounts, found in the work of Jessica Brown, Alan Hazlett, and Patrick Rysiew, fail to provide a satisfactory explanation of our judgments.
Starting Page	3239
Ending Page	3269
Page Count	31
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	191
Issue Number	14
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-03-26
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Knowledge ascriptions Pragmatics Invariantism Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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