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135Deriving the Norm of AssertionJournal of Philosophical Research 39 75-85. 2014.Frank Hindriks has attempted to derive a variant of Timothy Williamson’s knowledge rule for assertion on the basis of a more fundamental belief expression analysis of that speech act. I show that his attempted derivation involves a crucial equivocation between two senses of ‘must,’ and therefore fails. I suggest two possible repairs; but I argue that even if they are successful, we should prefer Williamson’s fully general knowledge rule to Hindriks’s restricted moral norm.
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201Speech Acts: Natural or Normative Kinds? The Case of AssertionMind and Language 29 (3): 336-350. 2014.There are two views of the essences of speech acts: according to one view, they are natural kinds; according to the other, they are what I call normative kinds—kinds in the (possibly non-reductive) definition of which some normative term occurs. In this article I show that speech acts can be normative but also natural kinds by deriving Williamson's account of assertion, on which it is an act individuated, and constitutively governed, by a norm (the knowledge rule), from a consideration of the na…Read more
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43What Is Semantic Content?In Erich Rast & Luiz Carlos Baptista (eds.), Meaning and Context, Peter Lang. pp. 2--187. 2010.
Brian Ball
Northeastern University London
University of Oxford
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Northeastern University LondonAssociate Professor
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Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland