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Assurance

Krista Lawlor · ISBN 9780199657896
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Publisher Oxford University Press UK
Author(s) Krista Lawlor
Subtitle An Austinian view of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims
Published 14th February 2013
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An Austinian view of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims

Claiming to know is more than making a report about one's epistemic position; one also offers one's assurance to others. What is an assurance? Krista Lawlor unites J. L. Austin's insights about the pragmatics of assurance giving and the semantics of knowledge claims into a systematic whole. The central theme in the Austinian view is that of reasonableness: appeal to a reasonable person standard makes the practice of assurance giving possible, and lets our
knowledge claims be true despite differences in practical interests and disagreement among speakers and hearers. Lawlor provides an original account of how the Austinian view addresses a number of difficulties
for contextualist semantic theories, resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes, and helps us to tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism.
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