Shifty Speech and Independent Thought - Epistemic Normativity in Context

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 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


• Conclusion


• References

About the author

Mona Simion is Deputy Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. She works on a wide range of topics within epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics, and feminist philosophy.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mona Simion, Mona (Deputy Director Simion
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2021
• EAN: 9780192895288
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289528-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge