Socratic Epistemology Explorations of Knoledge-Seeking by Questioning [Paperback]

Jaakko Hintikka discusses the important problem of how knowledge is first acquired.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. The result is a new and illuminating approach to the field of epistemology.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. The result is a new and illuminating approach to the field of epistemology.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.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?