In Defense of Indexicalism:Comments on Davis |
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Authors: | Gerhard Ernst |
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Affiliation: | (1) Seminar für Philosophie Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Ludwigstraße 31, 80539 München, Germany |
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Abstract: | Wayne Davis (2004) argues against the thesis that knowledge claims are indexical, and he presents an alternative account of the contextual variability of our use of S knows p. In this commentary I focus on the following three points. First, I want to supplement Daviss considerations about the inability of indexicalism to deal with skeptical paradoxes by considering what the consequence would be if the indexicalists explanation of these paradoxes were satisfactory. Second, I am going to take a brief look at Daviss alternative theory. Third, in the main part of my commentary I try to show that indexicalism may be true in spite of the linguistic evidence Davis presents against it. |
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