NDLI: How to be an Anti-Skeptic and a NonContextualist

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Russell, Bruce
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Contextualists often argue from examples where it seems true to say in one context that a person knows something but not true to say that in another context where skeptical hypotheses have been introduced. The skeptical hypotheses can be moderate, simply mentioning what might be the case or raising questions about what a person is certain of, or radical, where scenarios about demon worlds, brains in vats, The Matrix, etc., are introduced. I argue that the introduction of these skeptical hypotheses leads people to fallaciously infer that it is no longer true to say that the relevant person knows. I believe that that is a better explanation of the so-called intuition that the person does not know than the contextualist’s who claim that raising these skeptical hypotheses changes the standards that determine when it is true to say “S knows that P.” At the end I raise the possibility that contextualists might defend their view on pragmatic rather than skeptical grounds by arguing that the standards of evidence rise when more is at stake in a practical sense.
Starting Page	245
Ending Page	255
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01650106
Journal	Erkenntnis
Volume Number	61
Issue Number	2-3
e-ISSN	15728420
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2004-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy Epistemology Ethics Logic Ontology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Logic

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