Knowledge and questions / edited by Franck Lihoreau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lihoreau, Franck.

Series:

Grazer philosophische Studien ; 77.

Grazer philosophische Studien, 0165-9227 ; 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This special volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien features twelve original essays on the relationship between knowledge and questions, a topic of utmost importance to epistemology, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of language. It raises a great deal of issues in each of these fields and at their intersection, bearing, inter alia, on the theory of rational deliberation and inquiry, pragmatism and virtue epistemology, the problems of scepticism and epistemic justification, the theory of assertion, the possibility of deductive knowledge, the semantics and pragmatics of knowledge ascript

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; QUESTIONS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND INQUIRIES; THE FIXATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE QUESTION-ANSWER PROCESS OF INQUIRY; IN WHAT SENSE IS KNOWLEDGE THE NORM OF ASSERTION?; KNOWLEDGE BY DEDUCTION; QUESTION-EMBEDDING AND FACTIVITY; CHEAP KNOWLEDGE AND EASY QUESTIONS; KNOWLEDGE-THE AND PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE ASCRIPTIONS; CONCEALED QUESTIONS UNDER COVER; KNOWING HOW TO ESTABLISH INTELLECTUALISM; KNOWLEDGE-HOW AND ABILITY; KNOWING-THAT, KNOWING-HOW, AND KNOWING PHILOSOPHICALLY; KNOWING THE ANSWER, UNDERSTANDING AND EPISTEMIC VALUE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0639-2

1-4416-0106-6

OCLC:

714567418