University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 1-1-2005 Brains and barns : the role of context in epistemic attribution. Julie M. Petty University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1 Recommended Citation Petty, Julie M., "Brains and barns : the role of context in epistemic attribution." (2005). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 2387. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/2387 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BRAINS AND BARNS: THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN EPISTEMIC ATTRIBUTION A Dissertation Presented by JULIE M. PETTY Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 2005 Department of Philosophy © Copyright by Julie M. Petty 2005 All Rights Reserved BRAINS AND BARNS: THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN EPISTEMIC ATTRIBUTION A Dissertation Presented by JULIE M. PETTY Approved as to style and content by: *7 Fred Feldman, Chair '7 Edmund L. Gettier, Member r> - Phillip Bricker, Department Head Philosophy ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Fred Feldman, for the many, many years of excellent philosophical instruction and for his caring and personal support of my efforts to complete my doctorate. I also thank my committee members - Ed Gettier, Jonathan Schaffer, and Angelika Kratzer — for their time and their contributions to this work.