contextualism

Relativism or "contextualism" as it is sometimes known, is the more difficult of the two extremes to deal with because there are often immediate political consequences to a rejection of popular beliefs held by significant minorities, which nevertheless do not square with basic ethical, logical, or epistemological principles, much less imperical evidence.

Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism 2006

Theorists writing under the label "contextualism," such as David Lewis

The Epistemic Closure Principle Luper, Steven 2005

That's another way of saying, sometimes contextualism is overrated.

A Sliver Shines Above Midtown Dana Rubinstein 2011

It is "a very successful example of architectural contextualism, a design approach that was to become particularly popular in the course of the 1980s, and therefore a key representative of its time," according to the Twentieth Century Society, which wants to see it listed.

Heritage or horror? Row over Broadgate demolition plan 2011

In fact, it seems even worse if contextualism about the meaning of theoretical terms is adopted.

Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

The extreme positions might work well for Monticello or the Pompidou Center, but the communities where we have workedare filled with nuances that are not always detected by an overly sensitive contextualism or an insensitive authenticity.

Frank Gruber: A Fourth Urbanism, Part 4: More on the "Why" of Cityism 2009

The contrast between Freud's instinctual determinism and Nietzsche's contextualism and historicism parallels contemporary psychoanalytic debates about whether human destructiveness is to be comprehended primarily as a manifestation of an innate aggressive drive (later Freud and Melanie Klein) or primarily as a reaction to frustration (earlier Freud) or narcissistic injury (Kohut).

Robert D. Stolorow: "Radical Evil" 2009

Austin, John Langshaw | contextualism, epistemic |

Situations in Natural Language Semantics Kratzer, Angelika 2009

He views contextualism as a theory of knowledge attribution.

Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008

Keith DeRose (1999: 188) makes a rather similar move in defending contextualism in epistemology.

Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008