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Defending Standards Contextualism [PDF]

, 2015
It has become more common recently for epistemologists to advocate the pragmatic encroachment on knowledge, the claim that the appropriateness ofknowledge ascriptions is dependent on the relevant practical circumstances.
Hudson, Robert
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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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Epistemic contextualism defended [PDF]

Synthese, 2014
Epistemic contextualists think that the extension of the expression ‘knows’ (and its cognates) depends on and varies with the context of utterance. In the last 15 years or so this view has faced intense criticism. This paper focuses on two sorts of objections.
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Contextualism about Epistemic Reasons [PDF]

, 2017
We will call sentences like these ‘normative epistemic reasons ascriptions’ (‘ERAs’ for short), since they are used to ascribe or deny reasons that normatively support beliefs. For simplicity, we will focus on unmodified ERAs like those above; talk of ‘good’/‘bad’ reasons, ‘strong’/‘weak’ reasons, etc., introduces further complexities.
Sylvan, Kurt, Fogal, Daniel
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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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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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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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Unassertability And The Appearance Of Ignorance [PDF]

, 2014
Whether it seems that you know something depends in part upon practical factors. When the stakes are low, it can seem to you that you know that p, but when the stakes go up it'll seem to you that you don't. The apparent sensitivity of knowledge to stakes
Pynn, Geoff
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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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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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