Showing by Avowing |
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Authors: | Maura Tumulty |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13323, USA |
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Abstract: | Dorit Bar-On aims to account for the distinctive security of avowals by appealing to expression. She officially commits herself
only to a negative characterization of expression, contending that expressive behavior is not epistemically based in self-judgments.
I argue that her account of avowals, if it relies exclusively on this negative account of expression, can't achieve the explanatory
depth she claims for it. Bar-On does explore the possibility that expression is a kind of perception-enabling showing. If
she endorsed this positive account, her argument would re-gain an explanatory advantage over its rivals. But extending this
account to linguistic expressive behavior would bring Bar-On very close to constitutive accounts of first-person authority. |
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