Third‐person knowledge ascriptions: A crucial experiment for contextualism

Jumbly Grindrod; James Andow; Nat Hansen

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Third‐person knowledge ascriptions: A crucial experiment for contextualism

Jumbly Grindrod, James Andow, Nat Hansen

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Previous experimental studies on epistemic contextualism have, for the most part, not been designed to distinguish between contextualism and one of its main competing theories, subject‐sensitive invariantism (SSI). In this paper, we present a “third‐person” experimental design that is needed to provide evidence that would support contextualism over SSI, and we then present our results using this design. Our results not only provide crucial support for contextualism over SSI, but also buck the general trend of failing to detect the kind of contextual effect that the epistemic contextualism relies upon.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	158-182
Number of pages	25
Journal	Mind and Language
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12196
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2018

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Epistemology
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental Epistemology
Contextualism
Knowledge Ascriptions
Subject-Sensitive Invariantism

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