Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the placeto 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. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957300-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés