Gail Stine (nee Caldwell, 1940–December 28, 1977) was an American philosopher who specialized in epistemology and philosophy of language. She was born in Schenectady, New York.[1]

Before her death at the age of 37,[2] she was a professor of philosophy at Wayne State University.[3] Wayne State now holds the annual Gail Stine Memorial Lecture in her honor.[4]

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.[2]

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. ↑ "Mrs. William Stine". The Morning Call. 29 December 1977. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Willard Van Orman Quine". Survivor99.com. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Notes and News". The Journal of Philosophy. 75 (2): 113–118. 1 January 1978. doi:10.5840/jphil197875239. JSTOR 2025689.
  4. ↑ "Wayne State University : Academic Program Review : Philosophy Department : Fall 2008" (PDF). Clasweb.clas.wayne.edu. 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. ↑ Stine, G. C. (1976). "Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure". Philosophical Studies. 29 (4): 249–261. doi:10.1007/BF00411885. JSTOR 4319027. S2CID 170145647.
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