Assertions, Handicaps, and Social Norms
| Autor: | Peter J. Graham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0303 health sciences Social epistemology media_common.quotation_subject Assertion Handicap principle 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences History and Philosophy of Science Assertiveness Animal cognition Psychology Social psychology Mechanism (sociology) Human communication 030304 developmental biology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Episteme. 17:349-363 |
| ISSN: | 1750-0117 1742-3600 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/epi.2019.53 |
| Popis: | How should we undertand the role of norms – especially epistemic norms – governing assertive speech acts? Mitchell Green (2009) has argued that these norms play the role of handicaps in the technical sense from the animal signals literature. As handicaps, they then play a large role in explaining the reliability – and so the stability (the continued prevalence) – of assertive speech acts. But though norms of assertion conceived of as social norms do indeed play this stabilizing role, these norms are best understood as deterrents and not as handicaps. This paper explains the stability problem for the maintenance of animal signals, and so human communication; the mechanics of the handicap principle; the role of deterrents and punishments as an alternative mechanism; and the role of social norms governing assertion for the case of human communication. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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