Abstract
The following paper analyzes three traditional epistemological problems – the problem of justification, the problem of knowledge and the problem of skepticism – and considers the virtues and the difficulties of contextualism in treating them. The main virtue is its compatibility with our everyday epistemic practices. The main difficulty is the risk of relativism. I will conclude that contextualism is superior to invariantism. According to the former justification and knowledge attributions legitimately vary with context, while the latter denies it.
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Vassallo, N. (2001). Contexts and philosophical problems of knowledge. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 2116, pp. 353–366). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44607-9_27
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