The Mind-Independence of Contexts for Knowledge-Attributions
In Jonathan Ichikawa (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism. New York, USA: Routledge. pp. 455-464 (2017)
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If we say that the truth of a statement of the form “S knows that p” depends on the pertinent context,
that raises the question, what determines the pertinent context? One answer would be: the
speaker. Another would be: the speaker and the hearer jointly somehow. Yet a third answer would
be: no one gets to decide; it is a matter of what the conversation is supposed to achieve and how
the world really is, and it can happen that all of the interlocutors are mistaken about the pertinent
context. In this way, the context relevant to knowledge attributions might be mind-independent.
In this chapter, we will explore the consequences of taking contexts to be mind-independent.
We will not give a definitive account of what determines the pertinent context, but we will have
something to say about it. Our focus will be on pointing out that certain debates that have been
conducted in the literature might have a different outcome if the possibility that contexts are
mind-independent were clearly on the table.
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Keywords | context-relativity knowledge attributions objective contexts |
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