Homo interrogans : questioning and the intentional structure of cognition / John Bruin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruin, John, 1956-

Series:

Collection Philosophica ; v. 53.

Philosophica ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Questioning.

Intentionality (Philosophy).

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938--Contributions in philosophy of intentionality.

Husserl, Edmund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discourse of questioning and answering. John Bruin examines the ""logic"" of interrogation and makes the case that intentionality itself has the structure of question and answer. Here, he breaks rank with the better known and more traditional and sets out to explore questioning from a phenomenological perspective.

Contents:

Contents; Chapter One: The Problem and the Plan; Introduction; A. A List of Assertions; B. Their Approaches, Our Approach; 1. On the Logic of Questions; 2. On the Intentionalist Approaches; C. The Argument, Chapter by Chapter; Notes; Chapter Two: Toward a Definition of a Question; Introduction; A. A Question Is a Special Case of a Request; B. Answers Have to Be Statements; C. A Question Is a Wishing; D. A Question Is a Desiring; 1. The Two Orders of Desire; 2. On How Lucid Is a Questioning Desire; E. A Question Is an Asking; F. A Question Has to Be Asked; G. A Question Has to Be in Words

H. Questioning and Doubting (Husserl's ""Theory A"")1. Doubting with Yes-No Questions, Not with Word Questions; 2. The Doubting- and the Question-Targets Are Identical; 3. First-Order and Second-Order Doubt; 4. Passive Doubt, Active Question; 5. Doubting and Its Cousins-Suspicion, Wonder, Et Al.; 6. Questioning and ""Being Questioned""; Summary; Notes; Chapter Three: On the Constitution of the Object-in-Question (On the ""Predicative Question,"" Part I); Introduction; A. What Does a Question Aim At?; 1. Husserl, the Sixth Investigation, and His ""Theory B""

2. This Is Not a Speech Act Critique3. Daubert's ""Frageverhalt,"" Our ""State of Affairs in Question""; B. On the Logic of Questions; 1. Husserl's ""Theory C"" and the Logic of ""Affirm or Deny""; 2. Taking ""No"" for an Answer; 3. The Logic of Recognize and Deny; 4. The Phenomenon of Emphasis; C. So Much Questioning, So Much Realism; 1. The State of Affairs as Answered; 2. The ""State of Affairs in Question,"" Revisited; Summary (with an Addendum on Supposing); Notes; Chapter Four: A Theory of Answering, A Theory of Informativeness (On the ""Predicative Question,"" Part II); Introduction

A. Sign, Fulfilment Question, Answer; 1. Not ""Apodictic,"" Not ""Good Enough""; 2. ""But Is It Really So?"" Is Not the Only Thing We Ask; 3. The ""Openness"" of a Signifying Act; 4. Does the Intuition Have Nothing to Add?; B. A Theory of Truth, A Theory of Evidence; C. Questioning and ""Doxicality"" (Husserl's ""Theory D""); 1. Deeming Possible; 2. Doubting and Questioning; 3. Deeming Likely, Deeming Unlikely; 4. On Certainty; Summary: On the Idea of Informativeness; 1. Auditory Evidence; 2. ""It Is True,"" ""It Is False""; Notes

Chapter Five: What Does It Mean? What Is Its Cause? (On the What-Question)Introduction; A. What Does ""What Is It?"" Want? And How Does It Get It?; 1. On What Is ""What""; 2. The What-Question, The Experimental Question; B. On the Reduction of Hermeneutical Noise; 1. On the Logic of Part and Whole; 2. Reducing the Noise Around the ""Fringes"" of a Thing; 3. Predictability Isn't Everything; C. ""Truth,"" ""Evidence,"" and ""Informativeness""; 1. Hermeneutical Truth; 2. Hermeneutical Evidence; Summary; 1. Why, How, and Because; 2. A Logic of Questions and Parts; Notes

Chapter Six: What We Know by Now, and What Comes Next

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780776616100

0776616102

OCLC:

742332982