Avowals: Expression, Security, and Knowledge: Reply to Matthew Boyle, David Rosenthal, and Maura Tumulty

In my reply to Boyle, Rosenthal, and Tumulty, I revisit my view of avowals’ security as a matter of a special immunity to error, their character as intentional expressive acts that employ self-ascriptive vehicles (without being grounded in self-beliefs), Moore’s paradox, the idea of expressing as co...

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Published in:Acta analytica : philosophy and psychology 2010-03, Vol.25 (1), p.47-63
Main Author: Bar-On, Dorit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Education
Epistemology
Logic
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
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Summary:In my reply to Boyle, Rosenthal, and Tumulty, I revisit my view of avowals’ security as a matter of a special immunity to error, their character as intentional expressive acts that employ self-ascriptive vehicles (without being grounded in self-beliefs), Moore’s paradox, the idea of expressing as contrasting with reporting and its connection to showing one’s mental state, and the ‘performance equivalence’ between avowals and other expressive acts.
ISSN:0353-5150
1874-6349
DOI:10.1007/s12136-009-0080-2