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The Dizzying Turn of Epistemic Contextualism [PDF]

Metaphilosophy, 2020
AbstractThe debate concerning epistemic contextualism represents a kind of linguistic turn in epistemology, where the focus has shifted from theorising about knowledge to theorising about knowledge attributions. Such a shift may well prove valuable, but only if we are clear on what the relationship is between a semantic analysis of knowledge ...
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Epistemic conservatism

Filosofia Unisinos, 2013
The present paper aims to revisit the virtues and disadvantages of epistemic conservatism, which claims that it is rational to adhere to a belief until there is evidence to the contrary.
Rodrigo Laera
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Relativism in Context

Aufklärung, 2019
The present paper introduces four fundamental issues within the framework of epistemic relativism: (a) the lack of precision in the concept of knowing; (b) the changes in the demands between context of use and of evaluation; (c) the violation of the real
Rodrigo Laera
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Shifty Contextualism About Epistemics [PDF]

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2017
According to a highly natural, orthodox view, epistemic modals like might and must are contextually variable, allowing us to express different propositions in different contexts of utterance. This view (contextualism about epistemic modals) is the orthodox one because the only other ways of making sense of how epistemic expressions are sensitive to ...
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The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance.
Alexander Almér, Gunnar Björnsson
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Contextualism And The Factivity Problem [PDF]

, 2008
Epistemological contextualism - the claim that the truth-value of knowledge-attributions can vary with the context of the attributor - has recently faced a whole series of objections. The most serious one, however, has not been discussed much so far: the
Baumann, Peter
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Knowing What Things Are: A Response to My Critics [PDF]

Manuscrito
In this response to my commentators, I address several challenges to the erotetic account of knowing what things are, developed in Knowing What Things Are: An Inquiry-Based Approach.
ANDRÉ J. ABATH
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Scepticism and the genealogy of knowledge: situating epistemology in time [PDF]

, 2008
My overarching purpose is to illustrate the philosophical fruitfulness of expanding epistemology not only laterally across the social space of other epistemic subjects, but at the same time vertically in the temporal dimension.
Fricker, Miranda
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Epistemic contextualism

Theoria, Beograd, 2014
The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to the main topic of this issue of Theoria. First, the author presents the key thesis of epistemic contextualism, outlines its development in contemporary epistemology and briefly characterizes its two versions, namely conversational and inferential contextualism.
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Contextualism and Testimony

Análisis Filosófico, 2014
It has recently been argued that Subject-Sensitive Invariantism conflicts with an attractive testimonial principle of transmission. One might think, given the differences between Subject-Sensitive Invariantism and Contextualism, the latter would not be ...
Leandro De Brasi
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