Assurance - An Austinian View of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims

Zusatztext recommend this book to both experts and those who are just intrigued to see what an Austinian view of knowledge and knowledge claims might look like Informationen zum Autor Krista Lawlor received her Master's degree from Tufts University, and PhD from the University of Michigan. She is now Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and the author of New Thoughts About Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts (Garland Press, 2001). Klappentext What is an assurance? What do we do when we claim to know? Krista Lawlor offers an original account based on the work of J. L. Austin. She addresses challenges to contextualist semantic theories; resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes; and helps us tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism. Zusammenfassung What is an assurance? What do we do when we claim to know? Krista Lawlor offers an original account based on the work of J. L. Austin. She addresses challenges to contextualist semantic theories; resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes; and helps us tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: The speech act of assurance 2: Austinian semantics 3: Austinian semantics and linguistic data 4: Paradox, Probability, and Inductive Knowledge 5: Idiosyncrasy, disagreement and the reasonable person standard 6: Assurance and radical skepticism Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Krista Lawlor, Krista (Stanford University) Lawlor, Lawlor Krista
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199657896
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965789-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge