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Non-Assertoric Speech Acts

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Language has a variety of uses. When we make an assertion, we state that something is the case. However, assertion is but one of many ways to use language, many of which have not often been given the attention they deserve in philosophical analysis. We can use language to give commands, ask for information, take back what we said, insult, praise. The purpose of this topical collection is to make progress toward our understanding of these different speech acts that, at least on the surface, appear to be different from assertion. Understanding speech acts other than assertion is a necessary prerequisite to a better understanding of speech as a unified type of action, in all its multifarious epistemological, societal, and political consequences.

Editors

  • Lwenn Bussière-Caraes Lwenn Bussière-Caraes , 

    Lwenn Bussière-Caraes

    Lwenn Bussière-Caraes recently graduated with a PhD in Philosophy and Semantics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam. They worked on Speech Acts in non-cooperative discourse settings within Luca Incurvati's ERC Starting Grant project EXPRESS: From the Expression of Disagreement to New Foundations for Expressivist Semantics. Their research interests centre on Political Philosophy of Language, and include Formal Pragmatics, Logic and History of Philosophy.

  • Luca Incurvati Luca Incurvati , 

    Luca Incurvati

    Luca Incurvati is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests lie in the philosophies of logic, language, and mathematics as well as meta-ethics and metaphysics. A recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, he has published numerous journal articles in these areas and is the author of Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

  • Giorgio Sbardolini Giorgio Sbardolini  &

    Giorgio Sbardolini

    Giorgio Sbardolini is MSCA Fellow of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich. Previously, Giorgio was a postdoc at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, and before that, a Ph.D. student at the Ohio State University. He works mainly in logic and philosophy of language, and has an active interest in the nearby areas (linguistics, cognitive science, metaphysics).

  • Julian J. Schlöder Julian J. Schlöder

    Julian J. Schlöder

    Julian J. Schlöder is an assistant research professor of philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Previously, they worked at the University of Amsterdam, where they also earned their PhD in 2018. They work in logic, philosophy of language, meta-ethics and pragmatism.

Articles (6 in this collection)

  4. Re: the rhetic

    Authors

    • Felix Larsson
    • Martin KasÃ¥
    • Content type: Original Research
    • Open Access
    • Published: 07 August 2023
    • Article: 51