Introduction. Conversation: Epistemological Investigations

Conversation, dialogue, reasonable disagreement, and the acquisition of knowledge through the words of others, all of this has always been at the center of philosophers’ concerns since the emergence of philosophy in Ancient Greece. It is also important to recognize that in contemporary philosophy, marked by the linguistic turn, there is a wealth of intellectual production on ethical (e.g. McKenna, 2012), psycho-linguistic (e.g. Clark, 1996), logical-linguistic (e.g. Grice, 1989) and pragmatic (e.g. Walton, 1992) aspects of the conversation. Despite all this, this is the first collection of texts dedicated exclusively to the strictly epistemic aspects of this phenomenon which is so decisive for the very constitution of our humanity. This book brings together the contributions of 15 leading philosophers on some of the most relevant issues of what we could call the Epistemology of Conversation.