Socratic epistemology : explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning

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Socratic epistemology : explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning

Jaakko Hintikka

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Epistemology without knowledge and without belief
  • Abduction : inference, conjecture, or an answer to a question?
  • A second-generation epistemic logic and its general significance
  • Presuppositions and other limitations of inquiry
  • The place of the A priori in epistemology
  • Systems of visual identification and neuroscience : lessons from epistemic logic / Jaakko Hintikka and John Symons
  • Logical explanations
  • Who has kidnapped the notion of information?
  • A fallacious fallacy?
  • Omitting data : ethical or strategic problem?

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Description

Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired. In this book, Jaakko Hintikka instead discusses the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place. His model of information-seeking is the old Socratic method of questioning, which has been generalized and brought up-to-date through the logical theory of questions and answers that he has developed. Hintikka also argues that philosophers' quest for a definition of knowledge is ill-conceived and that the entire notion of knowledge should be replaced by the concept of information. He offers an analysis of the different meanings of the concept of information and of their interrelations. The result is a new and illuminating approach to the field of epistemology.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Epistemology without knowledge and without belief
  • 2. Abduction: inference, conjecture, or an answer to a question?
  • 3. Second-generation epistemic logic and its general significance
  • 4. Presuppositions and other limitations of inquiry
  • 5. The place of the a priori in epistemology
  • 6. Systems of visual identification and neuroscience: lessons from epistemic logic with John Symons
  • 7. Logical explanations
  • 8. Who has kidnapped the notion of information?
  • 9. A fallacious fallacy?
  • 10. Omitting data: ethical or strategic problem?

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  • NCID
    BA83167448
  • ISBN
    • 9780521616515
  • LCCN
    2006102664
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 239 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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