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Single Idea 19561
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
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Full Idea
Maybe contextualists are too quick to appeal to our conflicting intuitions regarding knowledge.
Gist of Idea
We shouldn't jump too quickly to a contextualist account of claims to know
Source
Stewart Cohen (Contextualism Defended (and reply) [2005], 1)
Book Ref
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Steup/Turri/Sosa [Wiley Blackwell 2014], p.79
A Reaction
An important point (from Earl Conee). I thoroughly approve of contextualism, but the whole status of whether a witness or a teacher knows what they are talking about is in danger of collapsing into relativism. This is what peer review is all about.
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[defence of context as vital to knowledge claims]:
12895
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Knowing is context-sensitive because the domain of quantification varies
[Lewis, by Cohen,S]
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19562
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We have knowledge if alternatives are eliminated, but appropriate alternatives depend on context
[Lewis, by Cohen,S]
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9166
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People vary in their epistemological standards, and none of them is 'correct'
[Field,H]
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19558
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Our own intuitions about whether we know tend to vacillate
[Cohen,S]
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19561
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We shouldn't jump too quickly to a contextualist account of claims to know
[Cohen,S]
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19563
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The context sensitivity of knowledge derives from its justification
[Cohen,S]
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19560
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Contextualism is good because it allows knowledge, but bad because 'knowing' is less valued
[Cohen,S]
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12893
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Contextualism says sceptical arguments are true, relative to their strict context
[Cohen,S]
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12896
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Knowledge is context-sensitive, because justification is
[Cohen,S]
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19514
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Classical invariantism combines fixed truth-conditions with variable assertability standards
[DeRose]
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19515
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We can make contextualism more precise, by specifying the discrimination needed each time
[DeRose]
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19510
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In some contexts there is little more to knowledge than true belief.
[DeRose]
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19516
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Contextualists worry about scepticism, but they should focus on the use of 'know' in ordinary speech
[DeRose]
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10341
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Justification depends on the audience and one's social role
[Kusch]
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6597
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A rule of justification might be: don't raise the level of scrutiny without a good reason
[Fogelin]
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19555
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People begin to doubt whether they 'know' when the answer becomes more significant
[Conee]
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19508
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Contextualism needs a semantics for knowledge sentences that are partly indexical
[Schiffer,S]
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19509
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The indexical aspect of contextual knowledge might be hidden, or it might be in what 'know' means
[Schiffer,S]
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