Peet, A (2022) Assertoric content, responsibility, and metasemantics. Mind & Language, 37 (5). pp. 914-932. ISSN 0268-1064
Abstract
I argue that assertoric content functions as a means for us to track the responsibilities undertaken by communicators, and that distinctively assertoric commitments are distinguished by being generated directly in virtue of the words the speaker uses. This raises two questions: (a) Why are speakers responsible for the content thus generated? (b) Why is it important for us to distinguish between commitments in terms of their manner of generation? I answer the first question by developing a novel responsibility based metasemantics. I answer the second by reference to the conflicting pressures governing the resources we have available for appraising speech.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author. Mind & Language published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution andreproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | assertion, commitment, communication, content, contextsensitivity, metasemantics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 818633 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2022 10:33 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/mila.12372 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186574 |
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