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Assertion - On the Philosophical Significance of Assertoric Speech (Paperback)
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Sanford C. Goldberg presents a novel account of the speech act of
assertion. He defends the view that this type of speech act is
answerable to a constitutive norm-the norm of assertion. The
hypothesis that assertion is answerable to a robustly epistemic
norm is uniquely suited to explain assertion's philosophical
significance-its connections to other philosophically interesting
topics. These include topics in epistemology (testimony and
testimonial knowledge; epistemic authority; disagreement), the
philosophy of mind (belief; the theory of mental content), the
philosophy of language (norms of language; the method of
interpretation; the theory of linguistic content), ethics (the
ethics of belief; what we owe to each other as information-seeking
creatures), and other matters which transcend any subcategory
(anonymity; trust; the division of epistemic labor; Moorean
paradoxicality). Goldberg aims to bring out these connections
without assuming anything about the precise content of assertion's
norm, beyond regarding it as robustly epistemic. In the last
section of the book, however, he proposes that we do best to see
the norm's epistemic standard as set in a context-sensitive
fashion. After motivating this proposal by appeal to Grice's
Cooperative Principle and spelling it out in terms of what is
mutually believed in the speech context, Goldberg concludes by
noting how this sort of context-sensitivity can be made to square
with assertion's philosophical significance.
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