Shifty Speech and Independent Thought: Epistemic Normativity in Context

by Mona Simion

Shifty Speech and Independent Thought is a manifesto for epistemic independence: the independence of good thinking from practical considerations. Mona Simion defends the independence of thought from the most prominent threat that has surfaced in the last twenty years of epistemological theorizing: the phenomenon of shiftiness of proper assertoric speech with practical context.

This study does four things: firstly, it shows that, against orthodoxy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192895281
• ISBN13: 9780192895288
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"