The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism

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