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Title: | Asserting as Commitment to Knowing. An Essay on the Normativity of Assertion |
Author: | Milić, Ivan |
Director/Tutor: | García-Carpintero, Manuel Rosenkranz, Sven |
Keywords: | Filosofia Philosophy |
Issue Date: | 28-Jan-2016 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract: | [eng] 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. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/102179 |
Appears in Collections: | Tesis Doctorals - Facultat - Filosofia |
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