DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.10099 ISSN: 1742-3600
Context-sensitive epistemic justification
Darren BradleyAbstract
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.