Assertion, knowledge and predictions

Knowledge, Certainty and Assertion

Researchers have debated whether knowledge or certainty is a better candidate for the norm of assertion. Should you make an assertion only if you know it’s true? Or should you make an assertion only if you’re certain it’s true? If either knowledge or certainty is a better candidate, then this will likely have detectable behavioral consequences. I report an experiment that tests for relevant beh...

Knowledge and suberogatory assertion

I accomplish two things in this paper. First I expose some important limitations of the contemporary literature on the norms of assertion and in the process illuminate a host of new directions and forms that an account of assertional norms might take. Second I leverage those insights to suggest a new account of the relation­ ship between knowledge and assertion, which arguably outperforms the s...

Knowledge and Assertion

Leading proponents of a wide variety of contemporary accounts of knowledge assume that knowledge is the norm of assertion. The assumption is central to the debate between contextualists and invariantists about the correct account of knowledge. DeRose (2002) argues that the knowledge norm for assertion favours contextualism, Hawthorne (2004) uses the knowledge norm to support subject-sensitive i...

Analysis of Knowledge, Assertion, Verification

Knowledge in the Image of Assertion

How must knowledge be formed, if made in the image of assertion? That is, given that knowledge plays the normative role of governing what one may assert, what can be inferred about the structure of the knowledge relation from this role? I will argue that what one may assert is sensitive to the question under discussion, and conclude that what one knows must be relative to a question. In short, ...