Assertion is widely regarded as an act associated with an epistemic position. To assert is to
represent oneself as occupying this position and/or to be required to occupy this position …

This paper offers a normative account of the speech act of explanation with understanding
as its norm. The previous accounts of the speech act of explanation rely on the factive notion …

Assertion is governed by an epistemic norm requiring knowledge. This idea has been hotly
debated in recent years, garnering attention in epistemology, philosophy of language, and …

Epistemologists disagree over their relationship. Reliabilists believe the second helps
explain the first. And by “explain” the reliabilist sets out to really, genuinely explain, to “state …

This paper offers a systematic classification and characterization of speech acts and their
norms. Recently, the normative approach has been applied to various speech acts, most …

Speech act theories have primarily aimed to identify the unique characteristics of different
types of speech acts. This has not been an easy endeavour. A simple statement, like saying …

AJP standard Word template Page 1 1 Hedging and the Norm of Belief Peter van Elswyk and
Christopher Willard-Kyle Northwestern University and University of Glasgow *Forthcoming in …