Experimenting on Contextualism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19035592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nat Hansen (0000-0001-5074-1075, corresponding author), Emmanuel Chemla (0000-0002-8423-5880) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 286-321 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mind & Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1064 • E-ISSN: 1468-0017 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/mila.12019 |
| OpenAlex | W2091915452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 30 |
In this article we refine the design of context shifting experiments , which play a central role in contextualist debates, and we subject a large number of scenarios involving different types of expressions of interest to contextualists, including ‘know’ and color adjectives like ‘green’, to experimental investigation. Our experiment (i) reveals an effect of changing contexts on the evaluation of uses of the sentences that we examine, thereby overturning the absence of results reported in previous experimental studies (so‐called null results ), (ii) uncovers evidence for a ‘truth bias' in favor of positive over negative sentences, and (iii) reveals previously unnoticed distinctions between the strength of the contextual effects displayed by scenarios involving knowledge ascriptions and scenarios concerning color and other miscellaneous scenarios
Cognitive psychology · Contextualism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
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Knowledge, the concept know, and the word know
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Contextualism in Philosophy
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Response to Affirmative and Negative Binary Statements
Color, context, and compositionality
Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |