The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Vol. 1

Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing knowledge to her to be true vary with context, has been hotly debated in recent epistemology and philosophy of language. Keith DeRose offers a state-of-the-art exposition and defense of the contextualist position, presenting and advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view and responding to the most pressing objections facing it.