Knowing and Asserting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10697842 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Williamson (0000-0002-4659-8672, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 489 |
| Publication date | 1996-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2998423 |
| OpenAlex | W2330661897 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 163 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper aims to identify the constitutive rule(s) of assertion, conceived by analogy with the rules of a game. That assertion has such rules is by no means obvious; perhaps it is more like a natural phenomenon than it seems. One way to find out is by supposing that it has such rules, in order to see where the hypothesis leads and what it explains. That will be done here. The hypothesis is not perfectly clear, of course, but we have at least a crude conception of constitutive rules, which we may refine as we elaborate the hypothesis. Although no attempt will be made here to define ‘rule’, some remarks on constitutive rules will focus the discussion
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Must φ is felicitous only if φ is not known
Presupposing counterfactuality
The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudes
Closure and Epistemic Modals
Assessment Sensitivity Relative Truth And Its Applications
Testimony and Epistemic Autonomy
What Is Assertion*?
Learning from Words
Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention
Knowledge As Acceptable Testimony
From Utterances to Speech Acts
Intellectual virtue
Epistemic Luck
Putting Logic in its Place
Knowledge and its Limits
Being Known
Knowledge as Credit for True Belief
IX—Moral Encroachment
Bald‐faced Lies! Lying Without the Intent to Deceive
Belief is weak
Intellectual Virtue
The Happy Fish of the Disputers
Does Assertibility Satisfy the S4 Axiom
Communicating Testimonial Commitment
Directing Thought
Aesthetic Judgments, Evaluative Content, and (Hybrid) Expressivism
Managing the reputation of trustworthiness in face-to-face communication
Epistemic Perspectives and Communicative Acts
Meaningfulness, Conventions, and Rules
Constitutive Norms of Assertion and the Common Ground, or How and Why Do We Play the Assertion game
How to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds
Documentaries and the fiction/nonfiction divide
ChatGPT is not bullshit, nor is it not not bullshit
Can the Demands of Justice Always Be Reconciled with the Demands of Epistemology? Testimonial Injustice and the Prospects of a Normative Clash
The Appreciation Game
Norms of Public Argumentation and the Ideals of Correctness and Participation
True clauses and false connections
Relativism and Two Kinds of Branching Time
Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards
Rules of use
The definition of assertion
Familiarity inferences, subjective attitudes and counterstance contingency
Defining common ground
Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals
Truth and directness in pictorial assertion
Lying versus misleading, with language and pictures
Attitudes, conditional and general
Testimonial Reliance
Assertion
Noncognitivism in Metaethics and the Philosophy of Action
Lying with Uninformative Speech Acts
Disagreement with a bald‐faced liar
The knowledge norm of assertion in dialectical context
Truth, Marks of Truth, and Conditionals
There is No (Sui Generis) Norm of Assertion
The epistemic normativity of conjecture
Illocutionary harm
Generics and social justice
Intentional action and knowledge-centered theories of control
Assertion remains strong
Truth and perspective
Taste, traits, and tendencies
Epistemic reparations in hostile contexts
Knowledge of future contingents
Epistemic luminosity, factives, and anti-factives
Playing and asserting
Testimonial contractarianism
Virtuous Deferral
Problems for factive accounts of assertion
Genre and Conversation
Assertion, expression, experience
No norm for (off the record) implicatures
LLMs, Turing tests and Chinese rooms
Learning conditionals
Hedged conjunctions and norms of assertion
Re-engineering knowledge
Should I say that? An experimental investigation of the norm of assertion
“Felt good, lie or not!”
The Acquaintance Inference and Hybrid Expressivism
Legal Judgment as a Philosophical Archetype
The cultural evolution of speech act norms
Lying vs. misleading
Topics in the linguistics of lying
Knowing how and pragmatic intrusion
Whether chatbot-generated opinion can be trusted
Assertion
Commitments and beyond
Variations on Anderson Conditionals
Rules, practices, and assessment of linguistic behaviour
Fake News und Desinformation
When Minds Converse
Conditionals, Indeterminacy, and Triviality
Social Knowing
Sneaky Assertions
Authorship and ChatGPT
A Speech-Act Perspective on the Rules of Assertion
Contextual expectations and norms of evidential disclosure in assertion
Normal Future Assertions
Judging for ourselves
Regulative rules
| Unique citing works | 163 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,26 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 159 |