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(2014) Mind, values, and metaphysics II, Dordrecht, Springer.
Constitutive versus normative accounts of speech and mental acts
Manuel García-Carpintero
pp. 431-448
At the end of his "Promisings and other Social Acts: Their Constituents and Structure," Kevin Mulligan briefly considers the question of the normativity of speech and mental acts. This has been a matter hotly debated in recent years; several authors (including Kathrin Glüer-Pagin and Åsa Wikforss) have contended that, properly understood, superficially looking normative notions that we deploy in characterizing such acts should be understood in a constitutive, nonnormative sense (in contrast with views such as the one recently defended by Tim Williamson about assertion, on which this is a constitutively normative act). The goal of my chapter would be to critically examine these suggestions and defend a normative account.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05146-8_25
Full citation:
García-Carpintero, M. (2014)., Constitutive versus normative accounts of speech and mental acts, in A. Reboul (ed.), Mind, values, and metaphysics II, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 431-448.