Assurance - Krista Lawlor

Assurance
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Autor: Krista Lawlor

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199657896
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 240
Data wydania: 2013-03-01
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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 lets our 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, and helps us to tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism. There is much to admire in Lawlor's book, and it will surely be an influential addition to the burgeoning field of Austin studies, not to mention the contemporary debates in epistemology and philosophy of language to which her Austinian proposal is directed. Duncan Pritchard, The Times Literary Supplement a detailed, expert Austinian account of assurance and knowledge claims ... Recommended.

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Krista Lawlor