The Norms of Assertion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. The Norms of Assertion

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   Pages 1-15

3. Speech Acts and Assertion

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   Pages 16-31

4. Norms of Assertion and Normativity

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   Pages 32-50

5. The Supportive Reasons Norm

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   Pages 51-82

6. The Lottery Paradox

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   Pages 83-111

7. Moore’s Paradox

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   Pages 112-137

8. “How Do You Know?” and Challenges to Assertion

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   Pages 138-165

9. Performance Normativity

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   Pages 166-192

10. Supporting the Supportive Reasons Norm

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    Pages 193-206

11. Assertion and Isolated Second-Hand Knowledge

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    Pages 207-221

12. Gender, Power, and the Norms of Indirect Assertion

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    Pages 222-236

13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-251

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When we make claims to each other, we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we're talking about? This book argues that we don't. In fact, it argues that in some special contexts, we can lie.

• Assertion
• Norms of Assertion
• Knowledge
• Speech Acts
• argue
• gender
• knowledge
• performance
• reason
• truth
• discourse analysis

• Department of Philosophy, College of Charleston, USA

  Rachel McKinnon

Rachel McKinnon is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the College of Charleston, USA. She primarily works in epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy. Her work has appeared in various journals such as Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Hypatia.

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