Sharing Knowledge: A Functionalist Account of Assertion

Abstract

Sharing Knowledge is the latter sort of book, addressing debates about the norm(s) of assertion: what norm or norms govern whether, and in what sense, it is correct to assert something. In the span of just under 200 pages of text, Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion have summarized much of the current state of play on the norms of assertion debate, produced a compact and tightly argued defense of a functionalist account of assertion, and put forth a series of arguments and illustrations directed at convincing the reader of the merits of their account...