Skip to main content
Log in

Boundary in context

  • Published:
Acta Analytica Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

A contextualist account of modal assertions is sketched that makes their truth sensitive to the presuppositions of the conversation. Support for the account is mustered by considering its application to the context-sensitivity of assertions of subjunctive conditional sentences, explanation sentences, and knowledge sentences.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Chierchia, G. and McConnell-Ginet, S. 1990: Meaning and Grammar. Cambridge: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chisholm, R. 1955: “Law Statements and Counterfactual Inference” Analysis 15, 97–105.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, S. 1986: “Knowledge and Context” Journal of Philosophy 83, 574–583.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, S. 1988: “How to be a Fallibilist” Philosophical Perspectives 2, 91–123.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • DeRose, K. 1992: “Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52, 913–929.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • DeRose, K. 1995: “Solving The Skeptical Problem” Philosophical Review 104, 1–52.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goodman, N. 1983: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hawthorne, J. 2001: “Freedom in Context” Philosophical Studies 104, 63–79.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Heller, M. 1999: “The Proper Role for Contextualism in an Anti-Luck Epistemology” Philosophical Perspectives 13, 115–129.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, D. 1983: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, D. 1986: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, D. 1996: “Elusive Knowledge” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, 549–567.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Menzies, P. 2004: “Difference-Making in Context” Causation and Counterfactuals, J. Collins, N. Hall, and L. Paul (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neta, R. 2003: “Contextualism and the Problem of the External World” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66, 1–31.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stalnaker, R. 1999: Context and Content. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Unger, P. 1986: “The Cone Model of Knowledge” Philosophical Topics 14, 125–178.

    Google Scholar 

  • van Fraassen, B. 1980: The Scientific Image. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • von Fintel, K. 2001: “Counterfactuals in a Dynamic Context” Ken Hale: A Life in Language, M. Kenstowicz (ed.). Cambridge: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Warmbrōd, K. 1981: “An Indexical Theory of Conditionals” Dialogue 20, 644–664.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Woodward, J. 1984: “A Theory of Singular Causal Explanation” Erkenntnis 21, 231–262.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Carroll, J.W. Boundary in context. Acta Anal 20, 43–54 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-005-1003-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-005-1003-5

Keywords

Navigation