ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an introduction to pragmatics and its relevance to debates surrounding epistemic contextualism (EC). To give a good sense of how the relevant issues play out, one has focused on one particular pragmatic approach and some of the more prominent objections to it. A more influential objection has it that the relevant pragmatic conveyances fail Grice's cancellability test. More controversial is whether pragmatics can help explain the data that figure centrally in arguments for EC, such as the intuitive responses to Keith DeRose's Bank (1992) and Cohen's (1999) Airport Cases. The chapter focuses on the handling of Low-High paired cases, there are other fronts on which EC and pragmatic considerations compete. These include concessive knowledge attributions and considerations of the social function of 'know(s)'. Like pragmatics itself, its bearing upon EC and the issues it brings to the fore is multi-faceted and under-appreciated.
