Who's afraid of cognitive diversity?
In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, S. 1-27
ISSN: 1502-3923
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In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, S. 1-27
ISSN: 1502-3923
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 199, Heft 3-4, S. 6061-6083
ISSN: 1573-0964
AbstractContrastivism about interrogative understanding is the view that 'S understands why p' posits a three-place epistemic relation between a subject S, a fact p, and an alternative to p, q. This thesis stands in stark opposition to the natural idea that a subject S can be said to understand why psimpliciter. I argue that contrastivism offers the best explanation for the fact that evaluations of the form 'S understands why p' vary depending on the alternatives to p under consideration. I also show that contrastivism offers valuable resources with which to explain the gradability of interrogative understanding attributions, as well as the sensitivity of these attributions to the perceived degree of epistemic demandingness of different contexts.
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 197, Heft 3, S. 1077-1098
ISSN: 1573-0964