What's wrong with contextualism?

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 232, 2008, Pages 416-436

  Greco, John ^a  

^a Saint Louis University

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EID: 57749208784     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.535.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. See for example S. Cohen, 'How to Be a Fallibilist', Philosophical Perspectives, 2 (1988), pp. 91-123
2. K. DeRose, 'Solving the Skeptical Problem', Philosophical Review, 104 (1995), pp. 1-52
3. and D. Lewis, 'Elusive Knowledge', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74 (1996), pp. 549-67
4. J. Greco, 'Knowledge as Credit for True Belief', in M. DePaul and L. Zagzebski (eds), Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology (Oxford UP, 2003)
5. and 'A Different Sort of Contextualism', Erkenntnis, 61 (2004), pp. 383-400
6. This is how I read Joel Feinberg's account of moral responsibility. See especially 'Problematic Responsibility in Law and Morals', 'Action and Responsibility', and 'Causing Voluntary Actions', all in Doing and Deserving: Essays in the Theory of Responsibility (Princeton UP, 1970)
7. See J. Hawthorne, Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford UP, 2004)
8. and J. Stanley, Knowledge and Practical Interests (Oxford UP, 2005)
9. See also J. Fantl and M. McGrath, 'Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification', Philosophical Review, 111 (2002), pp. 6-94
10. See the previous note for references
11. Hawthorne, pp. 157-8
12. For example, see Stanley, p. 24
13. Cohen raised this possibility to me in correspondence. Jason Stanley points out this possibility for contextualism at Stanley, pp. 16-17
14. E. Sosa, 'Skepticism and Contextualism', Philosophical Issues, 10 (2000), p. 6
15. Hawthorne, op. cit
16. T. Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits (Oxford UP, 2000)
17. See also Stanley, and Fantl and McGrath, op. cit
18. E. Craig, Knowledge and the State of Nature (Oxford UP, 1990)
19. Craig, p. 2
20. Craig, p. 11