Gail Stine

Gail Stine (1940–1977) was an American philosopher who specialized in epistemology and philosophy of language. Before her death at the age of 37,[1] she was a professor of philosophy at Wayne State University.[2] Wayne State now holds the annual Gail Stine Memorial Lecture in her honor.[3]

Education

Stine graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1962. Stine was a student of W. V. O. Quine and received her PhD at Harvard University in 1969 under the supervision of Burton Dreben.[4]

Work

Stine was an advocate of contextualism, the view that our standards for knowledge vary by situation.[5] Stine also advocates the view that for a subject to know that p, she must rule out all relevant alternatives to p, a position also held by Alvin Goldman and Fred Dretske.[6] Probably her most well-known article is her 1976 Philosophical Studies article, "Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure".[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Willard Van Orman Quine". Survivor99.com. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Ezproxy Login". Jstor.org. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Wayne State University : Academic Program Review : Philosophy Department : Fall 2008" (PDF). Clasweb.clas.wayne.edu. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Willard Van Orman Quine". Survivor99.com. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Epistemic Contextualism". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Analysis of Knowledge". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure". Jstor.org. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
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