Retraction Matters: New Developments in the Philosophy of Language (Synthese Library, 488)

Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
	References
Part I: Insights from the Debate About Perspectival Expressions
	Chapter 2: Taste Predicates and Retraction Data: An Improved Framework
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Analyses of PPT
		2.3 MacFarlane’s Retraction Argument
		2.4 Retraction Data and PPT
			2.4.1 What Is Retraction?
			2.4.2 An Improved Framework
		2.5 Rethinking Extant Retraction Data
		2.6 A Few Loose Ends
			2.6.1 Cross-Linguistic Diversity?
			2.6.2 Empirical Differences Between NIC and AR?
			2.6.3 A Potential Problem for AR
		2.7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Falsity and Retraction: New Experimental Data on Epistemic Modals
		3.1 Introduction, Clarifications, and Disclaimers
		3.2 Relativism and Epistemic Modals
		3.3 The Point of Truth in Semantic Theory, Assertion, and Retraction
		3.4 Falsity: Knobe and Yalcin
		3.5 Falsity and Required Retractions: North American and Peninsular Spanish Participants
			3.5.1 First Experiment: US English Speakers
			3.5.2 Second Experiment: Spanish Speakers
		3.6 Discussion
		3.7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Relativism and Retraction: The Case Is Not Yet Lost
		4.1 Introduction
			4.1.1 The Intuitive Case for Retraction
			4.1.2 Contextualism, Relativism, and Flexible Relativism
			4.1.3 The Challenge from Retraction
			4.1.4 The Retraction Rule
		4.2 Armchair Considerations
			4.2.1 Initial Reactions to the Retraction Data
			4.2.2 Replies to the Initial Reactions
		4.3 Experimental Studies
			4.3.1 Extant Studies and Their Conclusions
			4.3.2 Replies to the Experimental Studies
			4.3.3 Flexibility Worries
		4.4 Summary and Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 5: Relevance in Epistemic Modal Disagreement
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 First–Third-Person Distinction and Conversational Purpose
			5.2.1 The First–Third-Person Distinction
			5.2.2 Conversational Purpose
		5.3 Illustrative Problem Cases
			5.3.1 The Cases
			5.3.2 Zooming Out
		5.4 Closing Remarks
			5.4.1 Areas for Further Inquiry
			5.4.2 Reflections on the Person Distinction
		References
Part II: Insights from Speech Act Theory and Conversational Dynamics
	Chapter 6: “Actually, Scratch That!”: A Tour into the Illocutionary Fabric of Retraction
		6.1 Retraction: A Roundup of Examples
		6.2 A Normative Approach to Illocution
		6.3 Undoing Illocutions
		6.4 The Illocutionary Fabric of Retraction
			6.4.1 Characterizing Retraction
			6.4.2 General Felicity Conditions of Retraction
		6.5 Kukla and Steinberg
			6.5.1 On ‘Relinquishing’
			6.5.2 On Public Recognition and Uptake
			6.5.3 On Inconsistent Behavior
		6.6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Nevermind: On Retraction as a Speech Act
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 What Retractions Undo
			7.2.1 The Retraction Dilemma
			7.2.2 Retractions and Assertions
			7.2.3 Retraction as a Speech Act
		7.3 Retractions as Proposals
			7.3.1 Felicity Conditions for Retractions
			7.3.2 Rejected Retractions
			7.3.3 Retractions and Power Dynamics
		7.4 Modelling Retraction
		7.5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Assertion and Retraction
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 Norms First vs. Effects First Styles of Theorizing About Speech Acts
		8.3 Norms, Effects, and Retraction
		8.4 Updates, Proposals, and Constraints
		8.5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9: The Ethics of Retraction
		9.1 What Is Retraction?
		9.2 Why Is Retraction Ethically Important?
		9.3 When and How Can We Retract?
		9.4 When Is Retraction Permissible?
		9.5 When Should We Retract?
			9.5.1 Retraction as Self-care
			9.5.2 Retraction as Social Repair
		References
	Chapter 10: Retraction and Verbal Disputes
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Verbal Disputes
		10.3 Merely Verbal Disputes vs. Metalinguistic Negotiations
			10.3.1 Merely vs. Wholly
			10.3.2 With vs. Without Normative Metalinguistic Disagreement
		10.4 Retraction and Verbalness
			10.4.1 Hirsch and Charity to Retraction
			10.4.2 Ball on Retraction and Temporal Externalism
			10.4.3 Three Different Scenarios
		10.5 Difficulties with the Verbal/Non-verbal Distinction and One Eminent Type of Non-verbalness
			10.5.1 The Underlying Inconsistency Type of Case
		10.6 (Indeterminacy of) Conclusion
		References
Index