The course will give an overview of the current field of assertion. It will locate assertion within speech act theory and pragmatics more generally, and it will present the major types of account of what assertion is, and also some of the discussion of the issues involved. It will also provide a look into the recent literature on lying and misleading as well as into recent applications of experimental methods to the subject.
- Assertion in speech act theory
- Assertion and pragmatics
- Communicative intentions and commitments
- Norm-based accounts
- Truth, content, and common ground
- Testimony and informativeness
- Asserting, lying, and misleading
- Assertion in experimental philosophy
Teacher: Peter Pagin
Course description:
Course dates: November 6 - December 6, preliminarily.
