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Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions
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This article is published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.The article was published on 1992-11-01. It has received 578 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contextualism & Contemporary philosophy.read more
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Knowledge in and out of context
TL;DR: The emperor's new 'knows' as discussed by the authors is a revised version of "The New 'Knows'. " Sections 4 and 6 are completely new and §4 questions the Subject-Sensitive Invariantist take on contextualist examples, and §6 suggests that the reason many ordinary knowledge attributions seem true is that they either are implicitly attributions of conditional knowledge or are themselves implicitly conditional.
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Context shifting arguments
Herman Cappelen,Ernie Lepore +1 more
TL;DR: Context shifting arguments (CSA) as discussed by the authors ask us to consider two utterances of an unambiguous, nonvague, non-elliptic sentence S. If the consensus intuition is that what's said, or expressed or the truth-conditions, and so possibly the truthvalues, of these utterances differ, then CSA concludes S is context sensitive.
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Contextualism, Scepticism, and the Problem of Epistemic Descent
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the contextualist response to radical scepticism fails to present a satisfactory explication of a notion - that of epistemic descent' that is pivotal to the anti-sceptical import of the account.
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Games, Beliefs and Credences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new kind of reason for being unsatisfied with the simple Lockean reduction of belief to credence, and defend the legitimacy of appealing to credences in a theory of belief.
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Gate-Keeping Contextualism
TL;DR: The gate-keeping contextualism as mentioned in this paper is a view that combines contextualism regarding knowledge with the idea that the central point or purpose of the concept of knowledge is to feature in attributions that keep epistemic gate for contextually salient communities.