Ideas of Stewart Cohen, by Theme
[American, fl. 1998, Professor at Arizona State University.]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
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The context sensitivity of knowledge derives from its justification
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Contextualism is good because it allows knowledge, but bad because 'knowing' is less valued
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Contextualism says sceptical arguments are true, relative to their strict context
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Knowledge is context-sensitive, because justification is
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Our own intuitions about whether we know tend to vacillate
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We shouldn't jump too quickly to a contextualist account of claims to know
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism
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There aren't invariant high standards for knowledge, because even those can be raised
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
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Contextualists slightly concede scepticism, but only in extremely strict contexts
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