Shannon Brick
Biographic Data
| ID | 4277399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Brick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Brick |
| SIGNATURE | BRICK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2644-9634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thinking Functionally About Moral Assertion
Show, Don't Tell: Emotion, Acquaintance and Moral Understanding Through Fiction
This paper substantiates a distinction, built out of Gricean resources, between two kinds of communicative act: showing and telling. Where telling that p proceeds by recruiting an addressee's capacity to recognize trustworthy informants, showing does not. Instead, showing proceeds by presenting an addressee with a consideration that provides reason to believe that p (other than the reason provided by an informant's credibility), and so recruits t…
The Aesthetic Value of the World
Journal Article The Aesthetic Value of the World Get access The Aesthetic Value of the World Tom Cochrane Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. 240. £55.00 (hbk). Shannon Brick Shannon Brick Georgetown University, USA [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2644-9634 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayac042, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac042 Published: 09 April…
Epistemic Neglect
In most testimonial transactions between adults, the hearer’s obligation is to accord the speaker a level of credibility that matches the evidence that what she is saying is true. When the speaker is a child, however, the adult must often respond by extending a level of trust greater than that warranted by the evidence of past epistemic performance. Such trust, which I call ‘hopeful trust,’ is not extended on the basis the child’s extant credibil…
Show, Don't Tell: Emotion, Acquaintance and Moral Understanding Through Fiction
This paper substantiates a distinction, built out of Gricean resources, between two kinds of communicative act: showing and telling. Where telling that p proceeds by recruiting an addressee's capacity to recognize trustworthy informants, showing does not. Instead, showing proceeds by presenting an addressee with a consideration that provides reason to believe that p (other than the reason provided by an informant's credibility), and so recruits t…
Epistemic Neglect
In most testimonial transactions between adults, the hearer’s obligation is to accord the speaker a level of credibility that matches the evidence that what she is saying is true. When the speaker is a child, however, the adult must often respond by extending a level of trust greater than that warranted by the evidence of past epistemic performance. Such trust, which I call ‘hopeful trust,’ is not extended on the basis the child’s extant credibil…
The Aesthetic Value of the World
Journal Article The Aesthetic Value of the World Get access The Aesthetic Value of the World Tom Cochrane Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. 240. £55.00 (hbk). Shannon Brick Shannon Brick Georgetown University, USA [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2644-9634 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayac042, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac042 Published: 09 April…
Show, Don't Tell: Emotion, Acquaintance and Moral Understanding Through Fiction
This paper substantiates a distinction, built out of Gricean resources, between two kinds of communicative act: showing and telling. Where telling that p proceeds by recruiting an addressee's capacity to recognize trustworthy informants, showing does not. Instead, showing proceeds by presenting an addressee with a consideration that provides reason to believe that p (other than the reason provided by an informant's credibility), and so recruits t…
Thinking Functionally About Moral Assertion
Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Credibility (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works)