Assurance
Subtitle: an Austinian view of knowledge and knowledge claims
By: Krista Lawlor
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780191632259; 9781299241237; 9780191748127; 9780199657896
Subjects: Erkenntnistheorie; Ordinary-language philosophy; PHILOSOPHY; Theory of Knowledge; History & Surveys; Modern; Semantik
Description: What is an assurance? What do we do when we claim to know? Krista Lawlor offers an original account based on the work of J.L. Austin. She addresses challenges to contextualist semantic theories; resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes; and helps us tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The speech act of assurance; title: Austinian semantics; title: Austinian semantics and linguistic data; title: Paradox, probability, and inductive knowledge; title: Idiosyncrasy, disagreement, and the reasonable person standard; title: Assurance and radical skepticism.