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Does Safety Entail Context-Sensitivity?

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In this article I discuss whether viewing safety as a necessary condition for knowing entails that the truth-conditions for knowledge is context-sensitive. I argue that, while it is far from clear-cut, there is at least not a strict entailment between the positing of safety as necessary for knowledge and the context-sensitivity of knowledge, and so, that one can remain an invariantist about knowledge and yet view safety as necessary for knowing.

Source: Erkenntnis

DOI: 10.1007/s10670-025-00960-6

Author: Balder Edmund Ask Zaar

Institution: Lund University

Language: English

Topic: Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,290

Funder: Lunds Universitet