| The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism and the New Invariantism |
| Keith DeRose |
| The Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming |
| Area 1 Epistemology |
| Area 2 Philosophy of Language |
| Keywords contextualism invariantism belief reports |
| http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Ekd47/OLB.pdf |
| http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Ekd47/OLB.doc |
| I present the features of the ordinary use of 'knows' that make a compelling case for the contextualist account of that verb, and I outline and defend the methodology that takes us from the data to a contextualist conclusion. Along the way, the superiority of contextualism over subject-sensitive invariantism is defended, and, in the final section, I answer some objections to contextualism. |
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