Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

N000520

Zusammenfassung

The project takes up a foundational question in epistemology. Provocatively put, the question is whether knowledge is relative. Within Philosophy, the question what knowledge consists in has been at the forefront of Epistemology and is a central issue in Philosophy. The project is concerned with determining whether an adequate conception of knowledge must be relativized to contexts or perspectives. It aims at a general understanding of the way in which knowledge ascriptions are sensitive to contextual features, the way in which our practice of ascribing knowledge to each other is gover...