Assurance: An Austinian View of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims
Author:   Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199657896


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 February 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780199657896


ISBN 10:   0199657890
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1: The speech act of assurance 2: Austinian semantics 3: Austinian semantics and linguistic data 4: Paradox, Probability, and Inductive Knowledge 5: Idiosyncrasy, disagreement and the reasonable person standard 6: Assurance and radical skepticism Bibliography Index

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a detailed, expert Austinian account of assurance and knowledge claims ... Recommended.


There is much to admire in Lawlor's book, and it will surely be an influential addition to the burgeoning field of Austin studies, not to mention the contemporary debates in epistemology and philosophy of language to which her Austinian proposal is directed. Duncan Pritchard, The Times Literary Supplement a detailed, expert Austinian account of assurance and knowledge claims ... Recommended. Choice


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Krista Lawlor received her Master's degree from Tufts University, and PhD from the University of Michigan. She is now Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and the author of New Thoughts About Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts (Garland Press, 2001).

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