TY - JOUR
T1 - Contextualism and scepticism: Even-handedness, factivity and surreptitiously raising standards
AU - Wright, C
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - The central contentions of this paper are two:first, that contextualism about knowledge cannot fulfil the eirenic promise which, for those who are drawn to it, constitutes, I believe, its main attraction; secondly, that the basic diagnosis of epistemological scepticism as somehow entrapping us, by diverting attention from a surreptitious shift to a special rarefied intellectual context , rests on inattention to the details of the principal sceptical paradoxes. These contentions are consistent with knowledge-contextualism, of some stripe or other, being true. What follows will not bear directly on that.
AB - The central contentions of this paper are two:first, that contextualism about knowledge cannot fulfil the eirenic promise which, for those who are drawn to it, constitutes, I believe, its main attraction; secondly, that the basic diagnosis of epistemological scepticism as somehow entrapping us, by diverting attention from a surreptitious shift to a special rarefied intellectual context , rests on inattention to the details of the principal sceptical paradoxes. These contentions are consistent with knowledge-contextualism, of some stripe or other, being true. What follows will not bear directly on that.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00397.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00397.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-8094
VL - 55
SP - 236
EP - 262
JO - The Philosophical Quarterly
JF - The Philosophical Quarterly
IS - 219
ER -