Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion

Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion
Author: John Turri
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2016-02-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783741864

Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we routinely make assertions. Information shared this way plays a critical role in the decisions and plans we make. In Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion, a distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist investigates the rules or norms that structure our social practice of assertion. Combining evidence from philosophy, psychology, and biology, John Turri shows that knowledge is the central norm of assertion and explains why knowledge plays this role. Concise, comprehensive, non-technical, and thoroughly accessible, this volume quickly brings readers to the cutting edge of a major research program at the intersection of philosophy and science. It presupposes no philosophical or scientific training. It will be of interest to philosophers and scientists, is suitable for use in graduate and undergraduate courses, and will appeal to general readers interested in human nature, social cognition, and communication.

The Norms of Assertion

The Norms of Assertion
Author: R. McKinnon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137521724

When we make claims to each other, we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we're talking about? This book argues that we don't. In fact, it argues that in some special contexts, we can lie.

Assertion

Assertion
Author: Sanford Goldberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198732481

Presents an account of the speech act of assertion and defends the view that it is answerable to a constitutive norm and is suited to explaining assertions connections to other philosophical topics.

Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion

Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion
Author: John Turri
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016
Genre: Assertion (Linguistics)
ISBN: 9781783741854

"Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we routinely make assertions. Information shared this way plays a critical role in the decisions and plans we make. In Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion, a distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist investigates the rules or norms that structure our social practice of assertion. Combining evidence from philosophy, psychology, and biology, John Turri shows that knowledge is the central norm of assertion and explains why knowledge plays this role. Concise, comprehensive, non-technical, and thoroughly accessible, this volume quickly brings readers to the cutting edge of a major research program at the intersection of philosophy and science. It presupposes no philosophical or scientific training. It will be of interest to philosophers and scientists, is suitable for use in graduate and undergraduate courses, and will appeal to general readers interested in human nature, social cognition, and communication."--Publisher's website.

Assertion

Assertion
Author: Jessica Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019957300X

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.

Assertion

Assertion
Author: M. Jary
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2010-07-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230274617

Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosophical, linguistic and psychological literature on the topic, and then presents a detailed account of the cognitive processes involved in the interpretation of assertions.

Sharing Knowledge

Sharing Knowledge
Author: Christoph Kelp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316517136

This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

Contextualising Knowledge

Contextualising Knowledge
Author: Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199682704

Jonathan Ichikawa synthesizes two prominent ideas in epistemology: contextualism about knowledge ascriptions, and the 'knowledge first' emphasis on the theoretical primacy of knowledge. He argues that in thinking clearly about knowledge, epistemologists must also think about the dynamic aspects of the words we use to talk about knowledge.

The Oxford Handbook of Assertion

The Oxford Handbook of Assertion
Author: Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190675233

Assertions belong to the family of speech acts that make claims regarding how things are. They include statements, avowals, reports, expressed judgments, and testimonies - acts which are relevant across a host of issues not only in philosophy of language and linguistics but also in subdisciplines such as epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Over the past two decades, the amount of scholarship investigating the speech act of assertion has increased dramatically, and the scope of such research has also grown. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion explores various dimensions of the act of assertion: its nature; its place in a theory of speech acts, and in semantics and meta-semantics; its role in epistemology; and the various social, political, and ethical dimensions of the act. Essays from leading theorists situate assertion in relation to other types of speech acts, exploring the connection between assertions and other phenomena of interest not only to philosophers but also to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, lawyers, computer scientists, and theorists from communication studies.

The Case for Contextualism

The Case for Contextualism
Author: Keith DeRose
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191619744

It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "knowledge" in some ("low-standards") contexts we'll deny is "knowledge" in other ("high-standards") contexts. But do these varying standards for when ordinary speakers will attribute knowledge, and for when they are in some important sense warranted in attributing knowledge, reflect varying standards for when it is or would be true for them to attribute knowledge? Or are the standards that govern whether such claims are true always the same? And what are the implications for epistemology if these truth-conditions for knowledge claims shift with context? Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing "knowledge" to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. In The Case for Contextualism Keith DeRose offers a sustained state-of-the-art exposition and defense of the contextualist position, presenting and advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view and against its "invariantist" rivals, and responding to the most pressing objections facing contextualism.