The Oxford Handbook of Assertion

Sanford C. Goldberg is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His interests range over philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. He is the author of dozens of articles on these topics as well as several books, including Conversational Pressure (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), To the Best of Our Knowledge (OUP, 2018), Assertion (OUP, 2015), Relying on Others (OUP, 2010), and Anti-Individualism (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

• The Oxford Handbook of Assertion IntroductionSanford C. Goldberg Part I. The Nature of Assertion: Various Approaches 1. Stalnaker on the Essential Effect of AssertionLenny J. Clapp2. Assertion and the Declarative MoodMark Jary3. Assertion: The Constitutive Norms ViewMona Simion and Christoph Kelp4. Commitment Accounts of AssertionLionel Shapiro5. The Belief View of AssertionMark Siebel6. The Indicativity ViewPeter Pagin7. Assertion: A Defective Theoretical CategoryHerman Cappelen Part II. Assertion among the Speech Acts 8. Assertion among the Speech ActsMarina Sbisà9. Promising and AssertionMark van Roojen10. Threats, Warnings, and AssertionsHallie Liberto Part III. Types of Assertion 11. Rhetorical Questions as Indirect AssertionsMarga Reimer12. Hedged AssertionMatthew Benton and Peter van Elswyk13. Bullshit AssertionBen Kotzee14. Slurs, Assertion, and PredicationChristopher Hom15. Proxy AssertionKirk Ludwig16. Can Groups Assert that P?Deborah Tollefsen Part IV. Methodological Questions in the Study of Assertion 17. Assertion and ConventionMitchell S. Green18. Testing for AssertionMartin Montminy19. Assertion and MindreadingWilliam S. Horton20. Can Artificial Entities Assert?Ori Freiman and Boaz Miller Part V. Assertion in Semantics and Metasemantics 21. Assertion and FictionManuel García-Carpintero22. De Se AssertionIsidora Stojanovic23. Assertion and the FutureCorine Besson and Anandi Hattiangadi24. Assertion and ModalityFabrizio Cariani25. Assertibility and ParadoxTim McCarthy Part VI. Assertion in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Action 26. Assertion and TestimonyEdward S. Hinchman27. Assertion of KnowledgePatrick Rysiew28. Asserting IgnoranceRik Peels29. Assertoric QualityJennifer Lackey30. Austin on Asserting and KnowingRobert Fiengo31. Formal Models of AssertionErik J. Olsson32. Epistemic Norms of Assertion and ActionMikkel Gerken and Esben Nedenskov Petersen33. Moore's Paradox and AssertionClayton Littlejohn Part VII. The Social Dimensions of Assertion 34. The Function of Assertion and Social NormsPeter J. Graham35. Silencing and AssertionAlessandra Tanesini36. Social Identity and AssertionCasey Rebecca Johnson37. Ethical Dimensions of AssertionTerence Cuneo38. The Norm of Assertion and BlameJessica Brown39. Assertion, Lying, and Untruthfully ImplicatingJessica Pepp