Contextualism is the view that the epistemic standards that a subject must meet in order for a sentence attributing knowledge to her to be true vary according to the contexts in which those sentences are uttered. This book argues that contextualism is true and is superior to its…
Contextualism has been hotly debated in recent epistemology & philosophy of language. 'The Case for Contextualism' is a state-of-the-art exposition & defense of the contextualist position, presenting & advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view & responding to th…
Contextualism has been hotly debated in recent epistemology & philosophy of language. 'The Case for Contextualism' is a state-of-the-art exposition & defense of the contextualist position, presenting & advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view & responding to th…
Contextualism has been hotly debated in recent epistemology & philosophy of language. 'The Case for Contextualism' is a state-of-the-art exposition & defense of the contextualist position, presenting & advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view & responding to th…
It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "knowledge" in some ("low-standards") contexts we'll deny is "knowledge" in other ("high-standards") con…
It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "knowledge" in some ("low-standards") contexts we'll deny is "knowledge" in other ("high-standards") con…
Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge …