Hazlett on Grice on "Conversation"

Abstract for his essay on "Conversation" in the Phenomenological Research (Journal):

"What is the relationship between knowledge

and 'knows'? Can the nature of 'knows' shed

any light on the nature of knowledge? Epistemologists

have recently focused their attention on our use

of knowledge attributions, and many have

concluded that the problem of skepticism can

be solved if we accept a proper view of

these various uses of 'knows'. Contextualism

and subject sensitive invariantism take

the same puzzling linguistic data -- our

willingness to attribute knowledge in certain

contexts and our unwillingness in others -- as

their starting point."

"Here I defend AN ALTERNATIVE [GRICEIAN] ACCOUNT

of the pragmatics of knowledge attributions, arguing

that it is superior as an account of our uses of

knowledge attributions, and as a solution to (part of)

the problem of [scepticism]."