Shifty speech and independent thought : epistemic normativity in context / Mona Simion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simion, Mona, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Speech--Philosophy.

Speech.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 164 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Epistemic normativity in context

Place of Publication:

New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This work is a manifesto for epistemic independence: the independence of good thinking from practical considerations. It presents a functionalist account of the normativity of assertion in conjunction with an integrated view of the normativity of constative speech acts.

Contents:

Part 1: The Thought/Speech Shiftiness Dilemma: 1. The Context Shiftiness Dilemma Generalized

2. Epistemic WAMs

3. Pragmatic WAMs

4. KK Compatibilism

Part 2: Thought Invariantism and Speech Functionalism: 5. Against the Shiftiness Dilemma

6. Assertion Functionalism and Context

7. Knowledge Norms for Constative Speech Acts

Part 3: Constatives in Context: 8. The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture

9. No Special Treatment for the Epistemic Normativity of Telling

10. A Special Case: Moral Assertion.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-264843-8

0-19-191608-0

0-19-264842-X

OCLC:

1246581719