Abstract

CASO, Ramiro. Modeling Truth-Relativistic Assertion. Anal. filos. [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.2, pp.225-259. ISSN 1851-9636.

I present an extension of Stalnaker's (1978) framework for modeling the conversational effects of assertion, so that it may be applied to the assertion of propositions whose truth is relative to parameters beyond a possible world. I develop two ways in which the new framework may be applied to the assertion of evaluative propositions, depending on whether the assessment of evaluative utterances reflects a moderate or a radical conception of their correctness conditions. I argue that, in virtue of this difference in the conceptualization of assertion, radical relativism has an advantage over moderate relativism, for moderate relativism faces problems with respect to the interpretation of evaluative disagreement.

Keywords : Assertion; Truth relativism; Nonindexical Contextualism; Evaluative Disagreement.

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