Socratic epistemology : explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning /

Socratic Epistemology challenges most current work in epistemology-which deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired-by discussing instead the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place. Jaakko Hintikka's model of information-seeking i...

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Main Author: Hintikka, Jaakko, 1929-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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 in neuroscience: lessons from epistemic logic / with John Symons
  • Logical explanations
  • Who has kidnapped the notion of information?
  • A fallacious fallacy?
  • Omitting data: ethical or strategic problem?