contextualist

Our approach is contextualist, pluralist, and pragmatist, and much more in tune with the nineteenth century US abolitionist movement that inspires the contemporary struggle for animal liberation and that like virtually all other modern social movements for rights, democracy, justice, and liberation had a pluralist character and influential militant component.

Averting the China Syndrome 2009

But there are more radical readings of the contextualist setting by which antigens are sensed, and debate concerning what constitutes the milieu of meaning of antigenicity and ensuing reaction have spawned certain provocative, and potentially important models of immune regulation (reviewed in Podolsky and Tauber 1997; Tauber 2000).

The Impulse of Breathing 2009

One important question so far not discussed is whether on the contextualist view the identity and diversity of the objects depends on the whole structure or just part of it.

Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

He was wary of noble theories, students say; instead, they call Mr. Obama a contextualist, willing to look past legal niceties to get results.

Barack Obama at the University of Chicago Law School. Ann Althouse 2008

So, in this sense, the contextualist stands to lose something if it in fact turns out that the skeptic is only very rarely or never able to raise the standards for a knowledge-ascribing sentence to express a truth.

Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

So, whoever turns out to be right, the contextualist or the

Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

And there are also some (though not the present author) who believe that some epistemological view at a different level, such as a coherentist or contextualist theory of justification, can circumvent these problems.

Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007

Second, whether that theory raises any problems internal to the contextualist view.

Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

Though they are not obviously competing, each attempt to explain this in non-contextualist terms focuses on different factors.

Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

Once again, then, armed with the correct contextualist semantics for the relevant claims, we can see that the conclusion of SA may be true, but that, contrary to appearances, that conclusion is not incompatible with a typical claim to know various mundane matters of fact.

Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007