Abstract

GARCIA CAMPOS, Jonatan  and  VAZQUEZ GUTIERREZ, Ricardo. Contextualism, Reliabilism and the Pyrrhonian Problematic. Diánoia [online]. 2012, vol.57, n.68, pp.3-28. ISSN 0185-2450.

In this paper, we explore a connection between reliabilism and contextualism. our purpose is to draw up a contextualist approach to solve the critique that the reliabilist notions of justification and knowledge are not satisfactory because there is no room for the intuitions that a subject who is justified or knows is rational and epistemologically responsible. We will argue that this critique and the Pyrrohnian skepticism share the same assumption, viz., the internalist clause. Thus, if it is possible to limit the scope of this clause using contextualism, making a distinction between two different contexts, then it is also possible to use this distinction to offer an answer to the internalist critique to reliabilism.

Keywords : epistemology; justification; internalism; externalism; skepticism.