Understanding Attributions: Problems, Options, and a Proposal

Theoria 88 (3):558-583 (2021)
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In this paper, I give an overview of different models of understanding attribution and advance a contextualist account of understanding attribution. Whereas other contextualist accounts make the degree in which the epistemic states of the relevant agents satisfy certain invariant conditions context-sensitive, the proposed account makes the conditions themselves context-sensitive.

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Felipe Morales Carbonell
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