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H. Rose and S. Rose (eds.): Alas, Poor Darwin

Josip Hrgović

University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE), 2002

Abstract

practical« affair (p.250).Against Quine and Rorty, Williams thinks that knowledge and, consequently, epistemology is and should be normatively significant.In that light, we should accept his arguments for general thesis (p.254): »Contextualism gives us a picture of knowledge and justification that stays close to the phenomenology of everyday epistemic practices, that articulates a fallibilist conception of rationality, that is friendly to the socially distributed and historically situated character of knowledge, and that offers a principled escape from traditional sceptical conundrums.This is why we should adopt it.

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