{{short description|American philosopher}} '''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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. William Stine |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107501448/the-morning-call/ |access-date=13 August 2022 |work=The Morning Call |date=29 December 1977}}</ref>
Before her death at the age of 37,<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.survivor99.com/pscience/2006-6/philosophy/Folder%20%20of%20Logic/willard_van_orman_quine.htm|title=Willard Van Orman Quine|publisher=Survivor99.com|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> she was a professor of philosophy at Wayne State University.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=2025689|title=Notes and News|date=1 January 1978|journal=The Journal of Philosophy|volume=75|issue=2|pages=113–118|doi=10.5840/jphil197875239}}</ref> Wayne State now holds the annual Gail Stine Memorial Lecture in her honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/Multimedia/Philosophy/files/PhilosophySelf-study.pdf|title=Wayne State University : Academic Program Review : Philosophy Department : Fall 2008|publisher=Clasweb.clas.wayne.edu|accessdate=4 November 2014|archive-date=14 July 2012|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120714030945/http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/Multimedia/Philosophy/files/PhilosophySelf-study.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mount Holyoke College holds an annual Gail Stine Lecture in her honor.[https://events.mtholyoke.edu/event/s_matthew_liao-a_gail_caldwell_stine_lecture_series]
==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.<ref name="auto"/>
==Work== Stine was an advocate of contextualism, the view that the truth-value of knowledge claims is context dependent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contextualism-epistemology/|title=Epistemic Contextualism|publisher=Plato.stanford.edu|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/|title=The Analysis of Knowledge|publisher=Plato.stanford.edu|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> Probably her most well-known article is her 1976 Philosophical Studies article, "Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure".<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor=4319027|title=Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure|last1=Stine|first1=G. C.|journal=Philosophical Studies|year=1976|volume=29|issue=4|pages=249–261|doi=10.1007/BF00411885|s2cid=170145647}}</ref>
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