Discussion Notes/Debate XI 4

Discussion Notes/Debate XI 4

A NON-PUZZLE ABOUT ASSERTION AND TRUTH (pages 475-479)

John TURRI ABSTRACT: It was recently argued that non-factive accounts of assertoric norms gain an advantage from “a puzzle about assertion and truth.” In this paper, I show that this is a puzzle in name only. The puzzle is based on allegedly inconsistent linguistic data that are not actually inconsistent. The demonstration’s key points are that something can be (a) …

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ORIGINAL FACTICITY AND THE INCOMPLETENESS OF KNOWLEDGE (pages 495-505)

Modesto GÓMEZ-ALONSO ABSTRACT: This article critically explores Nuno Venturinha’s project of capturing how we are situated in reality, a project grounded in the conviction that the closure of knowledge and the openness of experience are compatible. To this end, I will explore how an approach complementary to Venturinha’s method—one which regards the passive and the active in knowledge as rooted …

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ON CONTEXTS, HINGES, AND IMPOSSIBLE MISTAKES (pages 507-516)

Anna BONCOMPAGNI ABSTRACT: In this commentary on Nuno Venturinha’s Description of Situations, after highlighting what in my view are the most significant and innovative features of his work, I focus on Venturinha’s infallibilist approach to knowledge. This topic allows for a wider discussion concerning the pragmatist aspects of the later Wittgenstein’s philosophy. I discuss this in three steps: first, by …

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SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND WHICH DESCRIPTIONS: ON VENTURINHA’S DESCRIPTION OF SITUATIONS (pages 517-526)

Marcin LEWIŃSKI ABSTRACT: In this paper, I approach Venturinha’s ideas on contextual epistemology from the perspective of linguistic practices of argumentation. I point to the “thick” descriptions of social situations as a common context in which our epistemic language-games take place. In this way, I explore promising connections of Venturinha’s work to key concepts in recent speech act theory, social …

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