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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 449–485.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Igor Douven Cornell University 2006 Adler, Jonathan. 2002 . Belief's Own Ethics . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Appiah, K. Anthony. 1985 . Assertion and Conditionals . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. 1987 . “`If' Again.” Analysis 47 : 193 -99. Austin, John L...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 405–451.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Dilip Ninan This essay uses a puzzle about assertion and time to explore the pragmatics, semantics, and epistemology of future discourse. The puzzle concerns cases in which a subject is in a position to say, at an initial time t , that it will be that ϕ , but is not in a position to say, at a later...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 349–353.
Published: 01 April 2023
...John Greco Kelp Christoph Simion Mona and Sharing Knowledge: A Functionalist Account of Assertion . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . x + 208 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 In this excellent book, Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion defend...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 167–203.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Keith DeRose Cornell University 2002 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 2 (April 2002)
Assertion, Knowledge, and Context
Keith DeRose
This paper brings together two positions that for the most part have
been developed and defended...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 97–143.
Published: 01 January 2021
... as knowing because their use of a declarative in a context tokens the act-type of assertion and assertions represent knowledge in what's asserted. In this article, a semantic explanation is proposed according to which declaratives covertly host a know -parenthetical. A speaker is thereby represented...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 January 2010
...John Turri In this essay I show how to reconcile epistemic invariantism with the knowledge account of assertion. My basic proposal is that we can comfortably combine invariantism with the knowledge account of assertion by endorsing contextualism about speech acts. My demonstration takes place...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 83–134.
Published: 01 January 2016
... discussion. It argues that to mislead is to disrupt the pursuit of the goal of inquiry—that is, to discover how things are. Lying is seen as a special case requiring assertion of disbelieved information, where assertion is characterized as a mode of contributing information to a discourse that is sensitive...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
...John Mackay A person of average height would assert a truth by the conditional ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would be taller than I am,’ in which an indicative clause ‘I am’ is embedded in a subjunctive conditional. By contrast, no one would assert a truth by ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 227–262.
Published: 01 April 2021
...David James Barnett Is self-knowledge a requirement of rationality, like consistency, or means-ends coherence? Many claim so, citing the evident impropriety of asserting, and the alleged irrationality of believing, Moore-paradoxical propositions of the form < p , but I don't believe that p...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 529–578.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Luca Incurvati; Julian J. Schlöder Deflationists about truth hold that the function of the truth predicate is to enable us to make certain assertions we could not otherwise make. Pragmatists claim that the utility of negation lies in its role in registering incompatibility. The pragmatist insight...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 385–443.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Agustín Rayo This essay is a study of ontological commitment, focused on the special case of arithmetical discourse. It tries to get clear about what would be involved in a defense of the claim that arithmetical assertions are ontologically innocent and about why ontological innocence matters...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 255–291.
Published: 01 July 2019
... defended in the literature. In addition, my account complements fruitful probabilistic theories of assertion and knowledge. References Barnett David 2009 . “ Yalcin on ‘Might’ .” Mind 118 , no. 471 : 771 – 75 . Beltrama Andrea 2018 . “ Totally Between Subjectivity...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 51–98.
Published: 01 January 2022
... it seems to assert a natural right to property alongside a commitment to property’s conventionality. We resolve this apparent contradiction. Provisional right is not a special kind of right. Instead, it marks the imperfection of an action (that of acquiring ordinary rights) where public authorization...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 227–251.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Matthew Weiner Cornell University 2005 DeRose, Keith. 1995 . Solving the Skeptical Problem. Philosophical Review 104 : 1 -52. ____. 1996 . Knowledge, Assertion, and Lotteries. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 : 568 -80. ____. 1998 . Simple `Might's, Indicative...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 439–447.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of c at the time of c . Here it is assumed that propositions receive a truth value relative to a possible world. According to this view, when I say, “Chili is tasty,” I assert the proposition that chili is tasty according to my present standard of taste; when you utter the negation of that sentence...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 504–507.
Published: 01 July 2023
... framework, Mona Simion’s engaging and wide-ranging work ensures that both the Knowledge Norm of Assertion (KNA) and Classical Invariantism (CI) can be part of a viable and productive research program. (KNA): One’s assertion is epistemically permissible iff one knows that p . (CI...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 281–338.
Published: 01 July 2014
... is more clear-cut. In many circumstances, we confidently use homophonic methods in reporting speeches made in the not-too-distant past. For example, we hear Sally saying ‘Salad is delicious’, and five minutes later we utter (1) Sally asserted that salad is delicious. 7 This ordinary practice...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
Published: 01 July 2015
... impossible to know whether L is true or not, or futile to wonder or try to find out which it is, or perhaps it's always a bad idea to go about asserting L . If true, each of these things also deserve some kind of explanation too. A standard strategy for answering such questions is to identify a class...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 283–286.
Published: 01 April 2001
... to realize that not all assertions need be descriptive. Some assertions
are evaluative assertions distinct from descriptive assertions. As assertions,
they express beliefs, but not representational beliefs.
Those who are skeptical about the coherence of the idea of nondescriptive
assertions may...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 320–325.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of Semantics 31 , no. 3 : 443 – 55 . Ninan Dilip . 2022 . “ Evidence, Assertion and the Future .” The Philosophical Review 131 , no. 4 : 405 – 51 . Roberts C. 1989 . “ Modal subordination and Pronominal Anaphora in Discourse .” Linguistics and Philosophy 12 , no. 6...
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