Contextualism and weird knowledge

Leonid Tarasov

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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. © 2013 The Authors.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)565-575
    Number of pages10
    JournalPhilosophical Quarterly
    Volume63
    Issue number252
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2013

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