SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND WHICH DESCRIPTIONS: ON VENTURINHA’S DESCRIPTION OF SITUATIONS (pages 517-526)

Marcin LEWIŃSKI

ABSTRACT: In this paper, I approach Venturinha’s ideas on contextual epistemology from the perspective of linguistic practices of argumentation. I point to the “thick” descriptions of social situations as a common context in which our epistemic language-games take place. In this way, I explore promising connections of Venturinha’s work to key concepts in recent speech act theory, social ontology and social epistemology.

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