Assertion New Philosophical Essays [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction,Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen
Part 1. What is an assertion?
1. Against Assertion,Herman Cappelen
2. Conversational Score, Assertion and Testimony,Max Kolbel
3. What is Assertion?,John MacFarlane
4. Information and Assertoric Force,Peter Pagin
5. The Essential Contextual,Robert Stalnaker
Part 2. Epistemic Norms of Assertion
6. Fallibilism and the Knowledge Norm for Assertion and Practical Reasoning,Jessica Brown
7. Putting the Norm of Assertion to Work: the Case of Testimony,Sanford Goldberg
8. Truth-Relativism, Norm-Relativism and Assertion,Patrick Greenough
9. Norms of Assertion,Jonathan L. Kvanvig
10. Assertion and Isolated Secondhand Knowledge,Jennifer Lackey
11. Assertion, Norms, and Games,Ishani Maitra

Jessica Brown,University of St Andrews,Herman Cappelen,University of St Andrews

Jessica Brown is currently Arche Professor at the Arche Philosophical Research Centre at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has published extensively in epistemology and philosophy of mind, including her monograph,Anti-Individualism and Knowledge(MIT 2004).



Herman Cappelen is Arche Professor at the University of St Andrews and a research director at CSMN, at the University of Oslo. He is the author of three books:Insensitive Semantics(Blackwell, 2004),Language Turned on Itself(OUP 2007), andRelativism and Monadic Truth(OUP 2009). He is co-author of