Contextualist accounts of “woman,” including Saul (2012), Diaz-Leon (2016), and Ichikawa (2020), aim to capture the variability meaning term, do justice rights trans women. I argue that (i) there is an internal tension between a contextualist stance commitment trans-inclusive language, (ii) we should recognize tackle broader deeper theoretical practical difficulties implicit in semantic debates...

This paper is devoted to discuss a general tendency in contextualism which is known as "radical contextualism". In the first part I state the well known paradox of semantic holism, as discussed in philosophy of language: if meaning is holistic there is no possibility to share any meaning. In the second part I present the different answers to this paradox, from atomism to different forms of holi...

Epistemic contextualism holds that the truth conditions of knowledge attributions vary from one context of utterance to another. On this view, different utterances of the same knowledge sentence of the form " S knows that P " convey different propositions in different contexts. What proposition an utterance of " S knows that P " conveys depends on the epistemic standards in place in the context...