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Synthese, 2021 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann D.
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Expressivism, Relativism and the analytic equivalence test [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field 2009, 252), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished.
Maria J. Frapolli +2 more
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The advantages of neomoorean antiskeptical strategy [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2020 This paper aims to argue in support of the neo-Moorean attempt(s) to solve a skeptical paradox. It defends the thesis that neo-Mooreans retain advantages and avoid disadvantages of rival anti-skeptical strategies - namely epistemic contextualism.
Mijić Jelena
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Against the anti-closure response to the factivity problem for epistemic contextualism
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2023 It appears that there is an inconsistency in combining epistemic contextualism with a plausible closure principle for knowledge and the view that knowledge is factive.
Eric Gilbertson
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Epistemic odds of contextuality in cyclic systems [PDF]
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2021 Beginning with the Bell theorem, cyclic systems of dichotomous random variables have been the object of many foundational findings in quantum mechanics. Here, we ask the question: if one chooses a cyclic system "at random" (uniformly within the hyperbox of all possible systems with given marginals), what are the odds that it will be contextual? We show
Dzhafarov Ehtibar, N. +2 more
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On the Adequacy of Attitude-Ascriptions
Filosofia Unisinos, 2022 Fregeans and Russellians defend different conceptions on the truth-conditions of reports of attitude ascriptions. Very often, they appeal to our intuitions and to pragmatic aspects to support their view.
Guido Imaguire
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Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2014 My aim in this paper is to motivate and defend a version of epistemic contextualism; a version, that is, of what came to be called attributor or ascriber contextualism. I will begin by outlining, in the first part, what I take to be the basic idea of and
Nikola Kompa
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Epistemic Contextualism: A Normative Approach [PDF]
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2012 AbstractIn hisKnowledge andPracticalInterestsJasonStanley argues that the view he defends, which he calls interest‐relative invariantism, is better supported by certain cases than epistemic contextualism. In this article I argue that a version of epistemic contextualism that emphasizes the role played by the ascriber's practical interests in ...
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Un desafío al contextualismo epistémico
Tópicos, 2014 An adequate theory of knowledge attribution sentences must face the Cartesian Skeptical Challenge. Epistemic Contextualism offers an attractive solution to the problem. This is considered to be one of its principal virtues. However, as soon as we ask for
Ignacio Vilaró
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Analiza i Egzystencja, 2018 On types of coffee. DeRose's contextualism as an anti-sceptical strategy Semantic contextualism is often used in order to offer solutions for problems in other branches of philosophy, including epistemology.
Tomasz Szubart
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