Contextualism and scepticism: Even-handedness, factivity and surreptitiously raising standards

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 219, 2005, Pages 236-262

  Wright, Crispin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547846054     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00397.x     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Essentially an example of DeRose: see his 'The Problem with Subject-Sensitive Invariantism', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68 (2004), pp. 346-50, at pp. 346-7
2. See DeRose, 'Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52 (1992), pp. 913-29
3. S. Cohen, 'Contextualism, Skepticism and the Structure of Reasons', Philosophical Perspectives, 13 (1999), pp. 57-89
4. As Jessica Brown has observed in conversation, indexicality, normally understood, is perhaps not the best way of conceiving of the kind of context-sensitivity of content that this proposal would involve. Better paradigms might be obtained from the modes of sensitivity investigated by writers such as C. Travis, 'Annals of Analysis', Mind, 100 (1991), pp. 237-64
5. D. Sperber and D. Wilson, Relevance (Harvard UP, 1986)
6. See J. Hawthorne, Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford UP, 2004), esp. ch. 4
7. J. Stanley, 'On the Linguistic Basis for Contextualism', Philosophical Studies, 119 (2004), pp. 119-46
8. T. Blackson, 'An Invalid Argument for Contextualism', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68 (2004), pp. 344-5
9. This is the 'Russellian Retreat': see my 'Scepticism and Dreaming: Imploding the Demon', Mind, 100 (1991), pp. 87-116, at p. 88
10. The locus classicus of this idea is F. Dretske, 'Epistemic Operators', Journal of Philosophy, 67 (1970), pp. 1007-23, but there are anticipations of it in J.L. Austin
11. For some discussion, see my 'On Epistemic Entitlement', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. 78 (2004), pp. 167-212, and other sources there referenced