ABSTRACT
Epistemic contextualism in itself does not entail any stance on closure, but most contextualists have been friendly to both some form of closure of knowledge and closure of justification. Indeed, its claimed ability to solve a prevalent skeptical paradox while retaining an appealing closure principle for knowledge has been one of the main selling points of contextualism. 1 In what follows, I will briefly discuss various closure-based paradoxes and puzzles. 2 My goal will be to investigate whether contextualism provides resources for solving these paradoxes that are not available to non-contextualists. I will focus primarily on the closure of knowledge (as opposed to justification); unless otherwise indicated, by ‘contextualism’ I will mean contextualism about knowledge. 3
