Assurance (eBook)

An Austinian View of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims

Krista Lawlor (Autor)

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2013
240 Seiten
OUP Oxford (Verlag)
978-0-19-163225-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Claiming to know is more than making a report about one's epistemic position: one also offers one's assurance to others. What is an assurance? In this book, Krista Lawlor unites J. L. Austin's insights about the pragmatics of assurance-giving and the semantics of knowledge claims into a systematic whole. The central theme in the Austinian view is that of reasonableness: appeal to a 'reasonable person' standard makes the practice of assurance-giving possible, and letsour knowledge claims be true despite differences in practical interests and disagreement among speakers and hearers. Lawlor provides an original account of how the Austinian view addresses a number of difficulties for contextualist semantic theories, resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes, andhelps us to tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-19-163225-2 / 0191632252
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-163225-9 / 9780191632259