Assertion

New Philosophical Essays
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-957300-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

The only volume of new work on this topic
Features an excellent line-up of contributors
Will bring the reader up to date on current debates in this area

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of philosophy and linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jessica

Cappelen, Herman

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen: 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)

Edited by Jessica Brown, University of St Andrews, and Herman Cappelen, University of St Andrews

Contributors:

Jessica Brown, University of St Andrews

Herman Cappelen, University of St Andrews and University of Oslo

Sanford Goldberg, Northwestern University

Patrick Greenough, University of St Andrews

Max Kölbel, University of Barcelona

Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Baylor University

Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University

John MacFarlane, University of California, Berkeley

Ishani Maitra, Rutgers University

Peter Pagin, University of Stockholm

Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology