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The Appearance of Ignorance: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2

The Appearance of Ignorance: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2

DeRose, Keith

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0199564477
ISBN13: 9780199564477
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 18 2018
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing knowledge to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. This volume presents, develops, and defends contextualist solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: the puzzles of skeptical hypotheses and of lotteries. It is argued that, at least by ordinary standards for knowledge, we do know that skeptical hypotheses are false, and that we've lost the lottery. Why it seems that we don't know that they're false tells us a lot, both about what knowledge is and how knowledge attributions work.

The Appearance of Ignorance is the companion volume to Keith DeRose's 2009 title The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 1.

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