Socratic epistemology : explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning / Jaakko Hintikka.
Hintikka, Jaakko, 1929-| Call Number | 121 |
| Author | Hintikka, Jaakko, 1929- author. |
| Title | Socratic epistemology : explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning / Jaakko Hintikka. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Epistemology without knowledge and without belief -- Abduction: inference, conjecture, or an answer to a question? -- Second-generation epistemic logic and its general significance -- Presuppositions and other limitations of inquiry -- The place of the A priori in epistemology -- (With John Symons) Systems of visual identification and neuroscience: lessons from epistemic logic -- Logical explanations -- Who has kidnapped the notion of information? -- A fallacious fallacy? -- Omitting data: ethical or strategic problem? -- Origin of the essays. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Subject | KNOWLEDGE, THEORY OF. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Epistemology without knowledge and without belief -- Abduction: inference, conjecture, or an answer to a question? -- Second-generation epistemic logic and its general significance -- Presuppositions and other limitations of inquiry -- The place of the A priori in epistemology -- (With John Symons) Systems of visual identification and neuroscience: lessons from epistemic logic -- Logical explanations -- Who has kidnapped the notion of information? -- A fallacious fallacy? -- Omitting data: ethical or strategic problem? -- Origin of the essays. |
| Subject | KNOWLEDGE, THEORY OF. |
| Multimedia |