Acknowledgments

This book is the result of many, many discussions over the years. A good number of people have helped me think hard about this topic. Special thanks go to Matt Benton, who read and provided feedback on large portions of this manuscript, to my colleague Jennifer Lackey, with whom I have had more conversations about assertion than I can remember, and to three anonymous referees at Oxford University Press, who gave me a great deal to think about in revising this manuscript. I am also grateful to others for many detailed discussions about assertion over the years: my Northwestern colleagues Mark Alznauer, Fabrizio Cariani, Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Sean Ebels-Duggan, Michael Glanzberg, Richard Kraut, Cristina Lafont, Peter Ludlow, Baron Reed, Gregory Ward, and Stephen White; my friends and professional colleagues Jessica Brown, Lizzie Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Richard Fumerton, Mikkel Gerken, Alvin Goldman, Peter Graham, Mitch Green, Thomas Grundmann, Ted Hinchman, Clare Horisk, Jesper Kallestrup, Klemens Kappell, Tim Kenyon, Igal Kvart, Michael Lynch, Duncan Pritchard, Geoff Pynne, Mike Ridge, Rob Stainton, Tim Sundell, John Turri, and Åsa Wikforss; and Northwestern graduate students Amy Flowerree, Lauren Leydon-Hardy, Matthew Mullins, and Nick Leonard, as well as graduate students Casey Johnson (University of Connecticut) and Andrea Kruse (University of Bochum, Germany). I am indebted to each of them. Finally, I would also like to thank the various people who over the years have encouraged, challenged, and cajoled me, enabling me to clarify my thinking on matters of assertion. These include Scott Aiken, Ben Almassi, Louise Antony, Brendan Balcerak Jackson, Magdalena Balcerak Jackson, David Barnett, Heather Battaly, J. C. Bjerring, Martijn Blauw, Paul Bloomfield, Larry Bonjour, Tad Brennan, Paul Carelli, Anjan Chakravarti, Dave Chalmers, David Christensen, Matthew Christman, Ryan Davis, Mark Dechesne, Jeroen de Ridder, Ciann Dorr, Ray Elugardo, David Enoch, Don Fallis, Jeremy Fantl, Kati Farkas, Rich Feldman, Carrie Figdor, Arthur Fine, Hans Fink, Bryan Frances, Marilyn Freidman, Axel Gelfert, Brie Gertler, Heidi Grasswick, Al Hajek, Mitch Haney, John Hardwig, Ali Hasan, Jim Hawthorne, John Hawthorne, Stephen Hetherington, Joachim Horvath, Sherri Irvin, Alex Jackson, Tom Kelley, Jenz Kipper, Dirk Koppelberg, Arie Kruglanski, Greg Landini, Pierre le Morvan, Christian List, Diego Machuca, Jon Matheson, Larry May, Matt McGrath, Rachel McKinnon, Ben McMyler, Boaz Miller, Seamus Miller, Martin Montminy, Philip Nickel, Daniel Nolan, Nikolaj Pederson, Rik Peels, Ted Poston, Dani Rabinowitz, Paulo Santorio, Eric Schwitzgebel, Johanna Seibt, Daniele Sgaravatti, Russ Shafer-Landau, David Simpson, Barry Smith, David Sosa, Ernie Sosa, Kai Spiekermann, Jason Stanley, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, Daniel Stoljar, David Stern, Bob Talisse, Jeff Tlumak, Deb Tollefson, Rico Vitz, Michael Williams, Timothy Williamson, Christian Wirrwitz, Sarah Wright, and Linda Zagzebski. I also would like to thank the audiences at various places where I have presented talks which now form parts of this book: the Arché workshop on Assertion at the University of St Andrews (St Andrews, Scotland); the Episteme Conference on “Epistemological Problems of Privacy and Secrecy” (The Hague, Netherlands); the Epistemology of Groups conference (University of London, England); the Summer School in Philosophy at the University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany); the Kentucky Philosophical Association Fall 2011 meeting (Highland Heights, Kentucky); the A. David Klein Philosophy Symposium on “The Ethics of Belief” (University of North Florida); the Orange Beach Epistemology Workshop (Orange Beach, Alabama); Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark); Australian National University (Canberra, Australia); Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel); LOGOS at the University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain); Magdalen and Oriel Colleges, Oxford University (Oxford, England); Monash University (Melbourne, Australia); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana); the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado); the University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa); the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma); the University of St Andrews (Scotland); the University of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden); the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); the University of Wollongong (Wollongong, Australia); and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee).