Ascriber Contextualism

Stewart Cohen

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195183214.003.0020

Ascriber Contextualism

Stewart Cohen

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This article describes the concept of ascriber contextualism in relation to skepticism. It explains that ascriber contextualism in epistemology is the view that the truth conditions for sentences containing "know" and its cognates are context sensitive. It discusses the motivations for contextualism, skeptical paradoxes, the mechanism of context shifting, and sensitive moderate invariantism (SMI). It also comments on objections to ascriber contextualism and SMI.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199892020
ISBN (Print)	9780195183214
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195183214.003.0020
State	Published - Sep 2 2009

Keywords

Ascriber contextualism
Cognates
Context shifting
Epistemology
Invariantism
Skeptical paradoxes
Skepticism
Truth conditions

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General Arts and Humanities

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