Volume 134, Number 1, 53-63, DOI: 10.1007/s11098-006-9021-8

Contextualism and a puzzle about seeing

Ram Neta

From the issue entitled "Proceedings of the 2004 Greensboro Symposium in Philosophy"

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Abstract

Contextualist solutions to skeptical puzzles have recently been subjected to various criticisms. In this paper, I will defend contextualism against an objection pressed by Jason Stanley. In the course of doing so, I argue that either semantic context-sensitivity is very widespread in natural language, or else Stanley's ``binding'' test for the presence of hidden variables in logical form is not a good test.

Keywords  Contextualism - Perception

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