Biography:Gail Stine
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
- ↑ "Mrs. William Stine". The Morning Call. 29 December 1977. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107501448/the-morning-call/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Willard Van Orman Quine". Survivor99.com. http://www.survivor99.com/pscience/2006-6/philosophy/Folder%20%20of%20Logic/willard_van_orman_quine.htm. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ↑ "Notes and News". The Journal of Philosophy 75 (2): 113–118. 1 January 1978. doi:10.5840/jphil197875239.
- ↑ "Wayne State University : Academic Program Review : Philosophy Department : Fall 2008". Clasweb.clas.wayne.edu. http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/Multimedia/Philosophy/files/PhilosophySelf-study.pdf. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ↑ "Epistemic Contextualism". Plato.stanford.edu. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contextualism-epistemology/. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ↑ "The Analysis of Knowledge". Plato.stanford.edu. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ↑ Stine, G. C. (1976). "Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure". Philosophical Studies 29 (4): 249–261. doi:10.1007/BF00411885.
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