Sharing Knowledge - A Functionalist Account of Assertion

This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. KRA: The Knowledge Rule of Assertion: 1. The case for the KRA; 2. Problems for KRA; 3. KRA and sufficiency; Part II. FFAA: A function first account of assertion: 4. FFAA; 5. FFAA and KRA; 6. FFAA and the duty to believe; Part III. Knowledge and Language: 7. KRA and constitutivity; 8. KRA and epistemic contextualism; Appendix A. The value of knowledge; Appendix B. JRA and knowledge first justification; Appendix C. Constitutivity in general; Bibliography.

About the author

Christoph Kelp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Inquiry, Knowledge and Understanding (2021) and co-editor of Virtue Theoretic Epistemology (with John Greco, Cambridge, 2020).Mona Simion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Shifty Speech and Independent Thought (2021) and co-editor of Reasons, Justification, and Defeat (with Jessica Brown, 2021).

Summary

This book explores the relation between assertion and knowledge sharing. It shows that assertion and knowledge sharing are intimately connected: what it takes to assert well is explained in terms of assertion's function of knowledge sharing.

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Kelp, Christoph (University of Glasgow) Kelp, Christoph (University of Glasgow) Simion Kelp, Mona Simion, Mona (University of Glasgow) Simion
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781316517130
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51713-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge