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The Exchange of Words - Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity (Paperback)
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The Exchange of Words - Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity (Paperback)
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The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words,
but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in
various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another
person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from
others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves
to know about the world. In The Exchange of Words, Richard Moran
provides a philosophical exploration of human testimony as a form
of intersubjective understanding in which speakers communicate by
making themselves accountable for the truth of what they say. The
book brings together themes from literature, philosophy of
language, moral psychology, action theory, and epistemology, for a
new approach to this fundamental human phenomenon. The account
developed here starts from the difference between what may be
revealed in one's speech (like a regional accent) and what we
explicitly claim and make ourselves answerable for. Some prominent
themes include: the meaning of sincerity in speech, the nature of
mutuality and how it differs from 'mind-reading', the interplay
between the first-person and the second-person perspectives in
conversation, and the nature of the speech act of telling and
related illocutions as developed by philosophers such as J. L.
Austin and Paul Grice. Everyday dialogue is the locus of a kind of
intersubjective understanding that is distinctive of the
transmission of reasons in human testimony, and The Exchange of
Words is an original and integrated account of this basic way of
being informative to and in touch with one another.
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