Knowledge and Presuppositions PDF

Knowledge and Presuppositions develops a novel account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions.

According to Blome-Tillmann, knowledge attributions are sensitive to what is pragmatically presupposed at the context of ascription.

The resulting theory-Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism (PEC)-is simple and straightforward, yet powerful enough to havefar-reaching and important consequences for a variety of hotly debated issues in epistemology and philosophy of language. In this book, Blome-Tillmann first develops Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism and then explores its ability to resolve various sceptical paradoxes and puzzles.

Blome-Tillmann also defends PEC against familiar and widely discussed philosophical and linguistic objections to contextualism.

In the final chapters of the book PEC is employed to illuminate a variety of concerns central to contemporary discussions of epistemological issues, such as Gettier cases, Moorean reasoning, the nature ofevidence, and other current problems and puzzles.