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Course: Wireless Philosophy > Unit 2
Lesson 4: Theory of knowledge- Theory of Knowledge: Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
- Theory of Knowledge: The Problem of Skepticism
- Theory of Knowledge: Three Responses to Skepticism
- Theory of Knowledge: New Responses to Skepticism
- Theory of Knowledge: Analyzing Knowledge #1 (The Gettier Problem)
- Theory of Knowledge: Analyzing Knowledge #2 (No-False-Lemma and No-Defeater Approaches)
- Theory of Knowledge: Analyzing Knowledge #3 (Causal and Reliabilist Theories)
- Theory of Knowledge: Analyzing Knowledge #4 (Tracking Theories)
- Theory of Knowledge: 'Knowledge First' Epistemology
- Virtue Epistemology
- Theory of Knowledge: Contextualism
- Theory of Knowledge: Intuition
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Theory of Knowledge: Contextualism
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois) explains epistemic contextualism, which says that the word “know” is a context-sensitive term. Geoff describes how contextualists claim to dissolve the problem of radical skepticism, and discusses the argument for contextualism from our ordinary linguistic usage.
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