Assertion

New Philosophical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-870763-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic. Philosophers of language and epistemologists join forces to elucidate what kind of speech act assertion is, particularly in light of relativist views of truth, and how assertion is governed by epistemic norms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jessica

Cappelen, Herman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part 1. What is an assertion?

- 1: Herman Cappelen: Against Assertion

- 2: Max Kölbel: Conversational Score, Assertion and Testimony

- 3: John MacFarlane: What is Assertion?

- 4: Peter Pagin: Information and Assertoric Force

- 5: Robert Stalnaker: The Essential Contextual

- Part 2. Epistemic Norms of Assertion

- 6: Jessica Brown: Fallibilism and the Knowledge Norm for Assertion and Practical Reasoning

- 7: Sanford Goldberg: Putting the Norm of Assertion to Work: the Case of Testimony

- 8: Patrick Greenough: Truth-Relativism, Norm-Relativism and Assertion

- 9: Jonathan L. Kvanvig: Norms of Assertion

- 10: Jennifer Lackey: Assertion and Isolated Secondhand Knowledge

- 11: Ishani Maitra: Assertion, Norms, and Games

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Brown is currently Arché Professor at the Arché Philosophical Research Centre at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has published extensively in epistemology and philosophy of mind, including her monograph, Anti-Individualism and Knowledge (MIT 2004).

; Herman Cappelen is Arché Professor at the University of St Andrews and a research director at CSMN, at the University of Oslo. He is the author of three books: Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004), Language Turned on Itself (OUP 2007), and Relativism and Monadic Truth (OUP 2009). He is co-author of The Inessential Indexical, with Josh Dever (OUP, 2013).