Download or read book Shifty Speech and Independent Thought written by Mona Simion and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a manifesto for epistemic independence: the independence of good thinking from practical considerations. It presents a functionalist account of the normativity of assertion in conjunction with an integrated view of the normativity of constative speech acts.