6.36 Contextualism

Keywords: contextualist, contextualism, bank, stakes, contexts, sensitive, standards, derose, sensitivity, speakers, context, intuitions, low, hawthorne, cohen

Number of articles: 58
Weighted number of articles: 50.76487

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic contextualism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.85, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 10 in 2005, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.149: Raw number of articles in topic 36, contextualism.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic contextualism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.74, and the median value is 0.1. It reaches a peak value of 8.92 in 2005, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1960.

Figure 6.150: Weighted number of articles in topic 36, contextualism.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic contextualism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.2%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 2.0% in 2005, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1960.

Figure 6.151: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 36, contextualism.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic contextualism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.9%, and the median value is 0.4%. It reaches a peak value of 14.6% in 2005, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1960.

Figure 6.152: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 36, contextualism.

Characteristic Articles

  1. John Greco, 2008, “What’s Wrong with Contextualism?,” The Philosophical Quarterly 58:416–36.
  2. Keith Derose, 2006, ““Bamboozled by Our Own Words”: Semantic Blindness and Some Arguments Against Contextualism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73:316–38.
  3. Peter Baumann, 2008, “Contextualism and the Factivity Problem,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76:580–602.
  4. Finn Spicer, 2006, “Epistemic Intuitions and Epistemic Contextualism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72:366–85.
  5. Peter Baumann, 2010, “The Case for Contexualism,” Analysis 70:149–60.
  6. Michael Brady and Duncan Pritchard, 2005, “Epistemological Contextualism: Problems and Prospects,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55:161–71.
  7. Anthony Brueckner, 2005, “Contextualism, Hawthorne’s Invariantism and Third-Person Cases,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55:315–8.
  8. Keith Derose, 2005, “The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism, and the New Invariantism,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55:172–98.
  9. Keith Derose, 2004, “The Problem with Subject-Sensitive Invariantism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68:346–50.
  10. Leonid Tarasov, 2013, “Contextualism and Weird Knowledge,” The Philosophical Quarterly 63:565–75.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Stacey Swain, Joshua Alexander and Jonathan M. Weinberg, 2008, “The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions: Running Hot and Cold on Truetemp,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76:138–55. (0.4806843)
  2. Stephen Schiffer, 1996, “Contextualist Solutions to Scepticism,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96:317–33. (0.4252945)
  3. John Greco, 2008, “What’s Wrong with Contextualism?,” The Philosophical Quarterly 58:416–36. (0.8494442)
  4. Allan Hazlett, 2010, “The Myth of Factive Verbs,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80:497–522. (0.3473187)
  5. Keith Derose, 2005, “The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism, and the New Invariantism,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55:172–98. (0.9907929)
  6. Jennifer Nagel, 2010, “Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Thinking About Error,” The Philosophical Quarterly 60:286–306. (0.8107585)