The Oxford Handbook Of Assertion (oxford Handbooks Series)

Assertions belong to the family of speech acts that make claims regarding how things are. They include statements, avowals, reports, expressed judgments, and testimonies - acts which are relevant across a host of issues not only in philosophy of language and linguistics but also in subdisciplines such as epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Over the past two decades, the amount of scholarship investigating the speech act of assertion has increased dramatically, and the scope of such research has also grown. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion explores various dimensions of the act of assertion: its nature; its place in a theory of speech acts, and in semantics and meta-semantics; its role in epistemology; and the various social, political, and ethical dimensions of the act. Essays from leading theorists situate assertion in relation to other types of speech acts, exploring the connection between assertions and other phenomena of interest not only to philosophers but also to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, lawyers, computer scientists, and theorists from communication studies. About the Editor Contents Contributors Introduction: Assertion among the Speech Acts • Sanford C. Goldberg PART I. THE NATURE OF ASSERTION: VARIOUS APPROACHES 1. Stalnaker on the Essential Effect of Assertion • Lenny Clapp 2. Assertion and the Declarative Mood • Mark Jary 3. Assertion: The Constitutive Norms View • Mona Simion and Christoph Kelp 4. Commitment Accounts of Assertion • Lionel Shapiro 5. The Belief View of Assertion • Mark Siebel 6. The Indicativity View • Peter Pagin 7. Assertion: A Defective Theoretical Category • Herman Cappelen PART II. ASSERTION AMONG THE SPEECH ACTS 8. Assertion among the Speech Acts • Marina Sbisà 9. Promising and Assertion • Mark van Roojen 10. Threats, Warnings, and Assertions • Hallie Liberto PART III. TYPES OF ASSERTION 11. Rhetorical Questions as Indirect Assertions • Marga Reimer 12. Hedged Assertion • Matthew A. Benton and Peter van Elswyk 13. Bullshit Assertion • Ben Kotzee 14. Slurs, Assertion, and Predication • Christopher Hom 15. Proxy Assertion • Kirk Ludwig 16. Can Groups Assert That P? • Deborah Tollefsen PART IV. METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS IN THE STUDY OF ASSERTION 17. Assertion and Convention • Mitchell S. Green 18. Testing for Assertion • Martin Montminy 19. Assertion and Mindreading • William S. Horton 20. Can Artificial Entities Assert? • Ori Freiman and Boaz Miller PART V. ASSERTION IN SEMANTICS AND META-SEMANTICS 21. Assertion and Fiction • Manuel García-Carpintero 22. De Se Assertion • Isidora Stojanovic 23. Assertion and the Future • Corine Besson and Anandi Hattiangadi 24. Assertion and Modality • Fabrizio Cariani 25. Assertibility and Paradox • Timothy G. McCarthy PART VI. ASSERTION IN EPISTEMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND, AND PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION 26. Assertion and Testimony • Edward S. Hinchman 27. Assertion of Knowledge • Patrick Rysiew 28. Asserting Ignorance • Rik Peels 29. Assertoric Quality • Jennifer Lackey 30. Austin on Asserting and Knowing • Robert Fiengo 31. Formal Models of Assertion • Erik J. Olsson 32. Epistemic Norms of Assertion and Action • Mikkel Gerken and Esben Nedenskov Petersen 33. Moore’s Paradox and Assertion • Clayton Littlejohn PART VII. THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF ASSERTION 34. The Function of Assertion and Social Norms • Peter J. Graham 35. Silencing and Assertion • Alessandra Tanesini 36. Social Identity and Assertion • Casey Rebecca Johnson 37. Ethical Dimensions of Assertion • Terence Cuneo 38. The Norm of Assertion and Blame • Jessica Brown 39. Assertion, Lying, and Untruthfully Implicating • Jessica Pepp Index This Handbook Is Currently In Development, With Individual Articles Publishing Online In Advance Of Print Publication. At This Time, We Cannot Add Information About Unpublished Articles In This Handbook, However The Table Of Contents Will Continue To Grow As Additional Articles Pass Through The Review Process And Are Added To The Site. Please Note That The Online Publication Date For This Handbook Is The Date That The First Article In The Title Was Published Online. Stalnaker On The Essential Effect Of Assertion / Lenny Clapp -- Assertion And The Declarative Mood / Mark Jary -- Commitment Accounts Of Assertion / Lionel Shapiro -- The Indicativity View / Peter Pagin -- Assertion : A Defective Theoretical Category / Herman Cappelen -- Promising And Assertion / Mark Van Roojen -- Rhetorical Questions As Indirect Assertions / Marga Reimer -- Bullshit Assertion / Ben Kotzee -- Hedged Assertion / Matthew A. Benton And Peter Van Elswyk -- Assertion And Convention / Mitchell S. Green -- Assertion And Mindreading / William S. Horton -- Austin On Asserting And Knowing / Robert Fiengo -- Moore's Paradox And Assertion / Clayton Littlejohn -- Proxy Assertion / Kirk Ludwig -- Testing For Assertion / Martin Montminy -- Assertion And Fiction / Manuel García-carpintero -- De Se Assertion / Isidora Stojanovic -- Assertion And Modality / Fabrizio Cariani -- Assertibility And Paradox / Timothy G. Mccarthy -- Assertion And Testimony / Edward Hinchman -- Assertion Of Knowledge / Patrick Rysiew -- Asserting Ignorance / Rik Peels -- Epistemic Norms Of Assertion And Action / Mikkel Gerken And Esben Nedenskov Petersen -- The Function Of Assertion And Social Norms / Peter J. Graham -- Silencing And Assertion / Alessandra Tanesini -- Social Identity And Assertion / Casey Rebecca Johnson -- Slurs, Assertion, And Predication / Christopher Hom -- Can Groups Assert That P? / Deborah Tollefsen -- Assertion, Lying, And Untruthfully Implicating / Jessica Pepp -- The Norm Of Assertion And Blame / Jessica Brown. Edited By Sanford Goldberg. Includes Bibliographical References. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion explores philosophical themes pertaining to the speech act of assertion: the nature of assertion, assertion's place among the speech acts, empirical issues in theories of assertion, assertion's role in semantics and metasemantics, the place of assertion in the epistemology of testimony, and the social and ethical dimensions of assertion.