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SUMMARY:Understanding and believing - Deirdre Wilson (UCL)
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CONTACT:George Walkden
DESCRIPTION:Speakers have two distinct goals: to be understood\, and to be
  believed. Hearers have two corresponding tasks: to understand the speaker
 ’s message\, and to decide whether or not to believe her. In this talk\,
  I will consider the relation between understanding and believing\, and su
 rvey some recent evidence suggesting that alongside the pragmatic capacity
  for understanding utterances\, there is a capacity for ‘epistemic vigil
 ance’\, which enables hearers to protect themselves against mistakes or 
 deliberate deception by speakers (Sperber et al. 2010). I will then look m
 ore closely at how the pragmatic capacity and the capacity for epistemic v
 igilance might interact\, and draw out some implications for pragmatics.\n
 \nSperber\, D\, Clément\, F.\, Heintz\, C.\, Mascaro\, O.\, Mercier\, H.\
 , Origgi\, G.\, Wilson\, D. 2010. Epistemic vigilance. _Mind & Language_ 2
 5: 359-93.
LOCATION:GR06-7\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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