Assertion is the central vehicle for the sharing of knowledge. Whether knowledge is shared successfully often depends on the quality of assertions: good assertions lead to successful knowledge sharing, while bad ones don't. In Sharing Knowledge, Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion investigate the relation between knowledge sharing and assertion, and develop an account of what it is to assert well. More specifically, they argue that the function of assertion is to share knowledge with others. It is this function that supports a central norm of assertion according to which a good assertion is one that has the disposition to generate knowledge in others. The book uses this functionalist approach to motivate further norms of assertion on both the speaker and the hearer side and investigates ramifications of this view for other questions about assertion.
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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.
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This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781316517130
Publisert
2021-11-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
220

Om bidragsyterne

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).