American philosopher who developed one of the principal versions of epistemic contextualism, arguing that knowledge attributions are context-sensitive in ways that dissolve the skeptical paradox.
Contextualism: ordinary knowledge attributions are true because the standards are low; philosophical skeptical scenarios raise the standards so that knowledge attributions become false; there is no contradiction because the standards shift. The Bank Cases thought experiments.
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