Bradley, D. (2026) Context-sensitive epistemic justification. Episteme. ISSN: 1742-3600
Abstract
One of the central divides in epistemology is between internalist and externalist theories of justification. As ‘justification’ is a normative term, one might wonder if work in semantics on normative terms can resolve the debate. Contextualism, saying that normative terms have hidden parameters fixed by the context, is a popular view in semantics. I will argue that much of the internalism/externalism debate about justification in epistemology can be dissolved by contextualism.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2026. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Contextualism, justification, internalism, externalism |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2025 10:35 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2026 13:14 |
| Status: | Published online |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/epi.2025.10099 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:229438 |
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