The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity

by Richard Moran

The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves to know about the world.

In The Exchange of Words, Richard Moran provides a philosophical exploration of human testimony...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190882905
• ISBN13: 9780190882907
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"