Asserting is the act of claiming that something is the case—for instance, that oranges are
citruses, or that there is a traffic congestion on Brooklyn Bridge (at some time). We make …

" Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential
functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each …

According to an influential hypothesis, the speech act of assertion is subject to a single
'constitutive'rule, that takes the form:'One must: assert that p only if p has C'. Scholars …

Contextualism is the view that the extension of perspectival claims (involving eg predicates
of personal taste or epistemic modals) depends on the context of utterance. Relativism is the …

Jonathan Ichikawa develops a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions, and
shows how it can illuminate foundational questions in epistemology. He argues that in …

Abstract Stalnaker (Context, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014) defends two ideas about
common ground. The first is that the common ground of a conversation is definable in terms …

According to what I'll call liability accounts of assertion,(a) states constitutively necessary
and sufficient conditions for asserting. According to what I'll call dialectical norm accounts, a …

Assertion is an act in which speakers commit to a proposition that they present in a
conversation. As such, it has a distinctively normative dimension. Some assertions seem …

Assertion is the central vehicle for the sharing of knowledge. Whether knowledge is shared
successfully often depends on the quality of assertions: good assertions lead to successful …

This book offers new insights into the nature of human rational capacities by engaging
inferentialism with empirical research in the cognitive sciences. Inferentialism advocates that …