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Elusive Knowledge Hyperintensionalized

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Description

In "Elusive Knowledge" (Lewis 1996), Lewis lays out his relevant alternatives theory of knowledge ascriptions. One problem for this theory is that it doesn't work in hyperintensional contexts, which is odd since as, Schaffer points out, "epistemology is evidently a hyperintensional topic" (Schaffer 2015, 478). In this paper, we develop a hyperintensional version of Lewis's relevant alternatives theory in the framework of exact truthmaker semantics, which has recently been championed by Fine and others (Fine 2017).
Period20 Sept 2018
Event titleGAP.10
Event typeConference
LocationKöln, GermanyShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • hyperintensionality
  • truthmaker semantics
  • epistemic contextualism
  • relevant alternatives theory