The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism

Epistemic contextualism is a recent and hotly debated topic in philosophy. Contextualists argue that the language we use to attribute knowledge can only be properly understood relative to a specified context. How much can our knowledge depend on context? Is there a limit, and if so, where does it lie? What is the relationship between epistemic contextualism and fundamental topics in philosophy such as objectivity, truth, and relativism? The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-seven chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into eight parts: - Data and motivations for contextualism - Methodological issues - Epistemological implications - Doing without contextualism - Relativism and disagreement - Semantic implementations - Contextualism outside 'knows' - Foundational linguistic issues. Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including contextualism and thought experiments and paradoxes such as the Gettier problem and the lottery paradox; semantics and pragmatics; the relationship between contextualism, relativism, and disagreement; and contextualism about related topics like ethical judgments and modality. The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields such as linguistics and philosophy of mind.

Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. He is the co-author, with Benjamin Jarvis, of The Rules of Thought (2013), and the author of Contextualising Knowledge: Epistemology and Semantics (2017).

Introduction: What is Epistemic Contextualism Jonathan Ichikawa Part 1: Data and Motivations 1. The Variability of 'Knows': An Opinionated Overview Crispin Wright 2. The Intuitive Basis for Contextualism Geoff Pynn 3. Epistemic Contextualism and Linguistic Behavior Wesley Buckwalter 4. Feminism and Contextualism Evelyn Brister Part 2: Methodological Issues 5. Epistemic Contextualism and Conceptual Ethics E. Diaz-Leon 6. Does Contextualism Hinge on a Methodological Dispute? Jie Gao, Mikkel Gerken, and Stephen B. Ryan 7. The Psychological Context of Contextualism Jennifer Nagel and Julia Jael Smith 8. What Are We Doing When We Theorize About Context Sensitivity? Derek Ball Part 3: Epistemological Implications 9. Epistemic Contextualism and the Shifting the Question Objection Brian Montgomery 10. Skepticism and Contextualism Michael J. Hannon 11. Contextualism and Fallibilism Keith DeRose 12. Contextualism and Closure Maria Lasonen-Aarnio 13. Lotteries and Prefaces Matthew A. Benton 14. Contextualism and Knowledge Norms Alex Worsnip 15. Contextualism and Gettier Cases John Greco Part 4: Doing Without Contextualism 16. 'Knowledge' and Pragmatics Patrick Rysiew 17. Loose Use and Belief variation Wayne A. Davis 18. Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism applied to 'knows' Herman Cappelen 19. Interest-Relative Invariantism Brian Weatherson Part 5: Relativism and Disagreement 20. The Disagreement Challenge to Contextualism Justin Khoo 21. On Disagreement Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes 22. Contextualism, Relativism, and the Problem of Lost Disagreement Elke Brendel 23. Epistemological Implications of Relativism J. Adam Carter Part 6: Semantic Implementations 24. The Semantic Error Problem for Epistemic Contextualism Patrick Greenough and Dirk Kindermann 25. Gradability and Knowledge Michael Blome-Tillmann 26. Conversational Kinematics Robin McKenna 27. 'Knowledge' and Quantifiers Nathan R. Cockram Part 7: Contextualism Outside 'Knows' 28. Moral Contextualism and Epistemic Contextualism: Similarities and Differences Berit Brogaard 29. Contextualism about Epistemic Reasons Daniel Fogal and Kurt Sylvan 30. Contextualism about Epistemic Modals J.L. Dowell 31. Contextualism about Belief Ascriptions Roger Clarke 32. Counterfactuals and Knowledge Karen S. Lewis 33. Contextualism about Foundations Daniel Greco Part 8: Foundational Linguistic Issues 34. The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction and Context-Sensitivity Maite Ezcurdia Olavarrieta 35. The Mind-independence of Contexts for Knowledge-Attributions Giovanni Mion and Christopher Gauker 36. Index, context, and the content of knowledge Brian Rabern 37. Contextualism in Epistemology and Relevance Theory Mark Jary and Robert J. Stainton. Index