Stewart Cohen is a contemporary analytic philosopher best known for developing epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions of knowledge attributions shift with the conversational context of the attributor. His work has been central to debates about skepticism, closure principles, and the structure of epistemic justification.
Developed and defended epistemic contextualism as a response to skeptical arguments
Influential analysis of the epistemic closure principle and its role in generating skeptical paradoxes
Argued that ordinary knowledge attributions and skeptical denial can both be true relative to different conversational standards
Contributed to debates on the relationship between practical stakes and epistemic justification
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