Asserting as Commitment to Knowing. An Essay on the Normativity of Assertion

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Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Filosofia
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Milić, Ivan
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2016-09-27T11:26:50Z
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2017-01-27T06:45:12Z
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2016-01-28
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http://hdl.handle.net/10803/394023
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In this thesis, I propose and defend a theory according to which committing oneself to knowing the proposition expressed counts as an assertion of that proposition. A consequence of this view is the knowledge account of assertion, according to which one asserts that p correctly only if one knows that p. In support of this approach, I offer a strategy of identifying an assertion’s “normative consequences”, types of act that normally take place as a result of one’s making an assertion incorrectly. I outline two such phenomena: retraction and disavowal of knowledge. In continuation, I put the theory to test and critically examine four sets of objections against it, arguing that it can convincingly defuse them. Finally, I discuss two related issues: I maintain that by performing “aesthetic assertions” one also normally performs a non-assertoric speech act of recommendation, and argue for the possibility of “non-linguistic assertions”, whose content is expressed by gestures in appropriate contexts.
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260 p.
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application/pdf
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eng
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Universitat de Barcelona
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L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
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Filosofia
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Filosofía
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Philosophy
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Ciències Humanes i Socials
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Asserting as Commitment to Knowing. An Essay on the Normativity of Assertion
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info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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1
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García-Carpintero, Manuel
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Rosenkranz, Sven
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12 mesos
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess


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