Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning

Jaakko Hintikka

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511619298

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.

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Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - Epistemology without Knowledge and without Belief
pp 11-37

2 - Abduction—Inference, Conjecture, or an Answer to a Question?
pp 38-60

3 - A Second-Generation Epistemic Logic and its General Significance
pp 61-82

4 - Presuppositions and Other Limitations of Inquiry
pp 83-106

5 - The Place of the a priori in Epistemology
pp 107-144

6 - Systems of Visual Identification in Neuroscience: Lessons from Epistemic Logic
pp 145-160

7 - Logical Explanations
pp 161-188

8 - Who Has Kidnapped the Notion of Information?
pp 189-210

9 - A Fallacious Fallacy?
pp 211-220

10 - Omitting Data—Ethical or Strategic Problem?
pp 221-228

Index
pp 229-239

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