The point of assertion is to transmit knowledge

Analysis 76 (2):130-136 (2016)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Recent work in philosophy and cognitive science shows that knowledge is the norm of our social practice of assertion, in the sense that an assertion should express knowledge. But why should an assertion express knowledge? I hypothesize that an assertion should express knowledge because the point of assertion is to transmit knowledge. I present evidence supporting this hypothesis.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1093/analys/anw025

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

The Express Knowledge Account of Assertion.John Turri - 2011 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (1):37-45.
Knowledge and the norm of assertion: a simple test.John Turri - 2015 - Synthese 192 (2):385-392.
Two more for the knowledge account of assertion.Matthew Benton - 2011 - Analysis 71 (4):684-687.
The status of the knowledge account of assertion.Frank Hindriks - 2007 - Linguistics and Philosophy 30 (3):393-406.
Unsafe Assertions.Martijn Blaauw & Jeroen de Ridder - 2012 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (4):1-5.
Against normative accounts of assertion.Peter Pagin - manuscript
Assertion, knowledge and predictions.Matthew Benton - 2012 - Analysis 72 (1):102-105.
Epistemological contextualism and the knowledge account of assertion.Joseph Shieber - 2009 - Philosophia 37 (1):169-181.
Assertion, knowledge, and action.Ishani Maitra & Brian Weatherson - 2010 - Philosophical Studies 149 (1):99-118.
Knowledge and suberogatory assertion.John Turri - 2013 - Philosophical Studies (3):1-11.
Testimony and the Constitutive Norm of Assertion.Casey Rebecca Johnson - 2015 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 23 (3):356-375.
A Note on Existentially Known Assertions.Ivan Milić - 2015 - Philosophical Quarterly 65 (261):813-821.
In what sense is knowledge the Norm of assertion?Pascal Engel - 2008 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 77 (1):45-59.
Justification as the appearance of knowledge.Steven L. Reynolds - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 163 (2):367-383.
Dubious assertions.David Sosa - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 146 (2):269 - 272.

Analytics

Added to PP
2016-03-16

Downloads
366 (#52,875)

6 months
120 (#29,849)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

John Turri
University of Waterloo

Citations of this work

Assertion is weak.Matthew Mandelkern & Kevin Dorst - 2022 - Philosophers' Imprint 22.
Hedged Assertion.Matthew A. Benton & Peter Van Elswyk - 2018 - In Sanford C. Goldberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Assertion. Oxford University Press. pp. 245-263.
Experimental work on the norms of assertion.John Turri - 2017 - Philosophy Compass 12 (7):e12425.
Assertion, Implicature, and Iterated Knowledge.Eliran Haziza - 2021 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 8.

View all 13 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Meditations on First Philosophy.René Descartes - 1984 [1641] - Ann Arbor: Caravan Books. Edited by Stanley Tweyman.
Norms of assertion.Jennifer Lackey - 2007 - Noûs 41 (4):594–626.
Ignorance : a case for scepticism.Peter Unger - 1975 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 166 (3):371-372.

View all 52 references / Add more references