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Stewart Cohen

Disciplines:
epistemology

Summary

American epistemologist who developed an influential version of epistemic contextualism and has written on skepticism and the standards for knowledge attribution.

Core Contribution

Contextualism: the semantic content of knowledge attributions varies with context; this explains why skeptical arguments seem compelling in philosophical contexts while ordinary knowledge attributions seem fine.

Notable Works & Achievements

How to Be a Fallibilist

Contextualism, Skepticism, and the Structure of Reasons

Historical Influences

David Lewis Fred Dretske

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Epistemology

Contemporaries & Peers

Keith DeRose John Hawthorne

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Epistemic Contextualism

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