Contextualism and Weird Knowledge

Philosophical Quarterly 63 (252):565-575 (2013)
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Abstract

John Greco has recently raised two worries for epistemic contextualism, viz it deprives epistemology of its subject matter and renders objective knowledge impossible. He argues that these problems are not restricted to contextualism, but apply to rival theories, like subject sensitive invariantism, and that they are overstated. I develop Greco's worries, which show that contextualism suggests either that there is no such thing as knowledge, or a weird view of knowledge: as disparately varied and undisciplined, individual-dependent and arbitrary. I then argue that these issues are not overstated and that they can be avoided if one opts for moderate insensitive invariantism

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Leonid Tarasov
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