Shifty Speech and Independent Thought

This work is a manifesto for epistemic independence: the independence of good thinking from practical considerations. It presents a functionalist account of the normativity of assertion in conjunction with an integrated view of the normativity of constative speech acts.

Mona Simion is Deputy Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. She works on a wide range of topics within epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics, and feminist philosophy.

Introduction
Part 1: The Thought/Speech Shiftiness Dilemma
1: The Context Shiftiness Dilemma Generalized
2: Epistemic WAMs
3: Pragmatic WAMs
4: KK Compatibilism
Part 2: Thought Invariantism and Speech Functionalism
5: Against the Shiftiness Dilemma
6: Assertion Functionalism and Context
7: Knowledge Norms for Constative Speech Acts
Part 3: Constatives in Context
8: The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture
9: No Special Treatment for the Epistemic Normativity of Telling
10: A Special Case: Moral Assertion
Conclusion
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