Ideas of Keith DeRose, by Theme

[American, b.1962, Professor at Yale University.]

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
A contextualist coherentist will say that how strongly a justification must cohere depends on context
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
Classical invariantism combines fixed truth-conditions with variable assertability standards
We can make contextualism more precise, by specifying the discrimination needed each time
In some contexts there is little more to knowledge than true belief.
Contextualists worry about scepticism, but they should focus on the use of 'know' in ordinary speech
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism
If contextualism is about knowledge attribution, rather than knowledge, then it is philosophy of language