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About this book
This volume brings together essays from several different perspectives on a topic in epistemology that is garnering increased attention: Inquiry. It is the first volume focused solely on philosophical issues related to inquiry.
Inquiry is a fundamental human practice. We have questions, and we want answers. These questions span numerous domains and range from the trivial to questions of the utmost importance. Without inquiry, and successful inquiry in particular, our fate is bleak. Inquiry is also familiar. Everyone engages in inquiry. In fact, inquiry (of some sort) is something that we engage in every day. However, while inquiry is both fundamental and familiar, only recently have epistemologists turned to focus explicitly on inquiry. The result is a growing literature concerning questions like the following:
- Does inquiry have an aim?
- If so, what is the aim of inquiry?
- What norms govern inquiry?
- How are epistemic norms and norms of inquiry related?
- What does inquiry look like with an epistemic division of labor?
- Is it ever permissible to interfere with the inquiry of another person?
- What is the relationship between inquiry and belief? Knowledge? Wisdom?
- How do bias and prejudice affect inquiry?
- What is the nature and role of attitudes like curiosity and wonder?
Inquiry: Philosophical Perspectives builds on the existing debates surrounding these questions, advancing them, and taking them in new directions. It will appeal primarily to scholars and graduate students working in epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Is Skeptical Inquiry Possible?
- 2 Lysistrata’s Lament: Interrogative Analogs of Testimonial Injustice
- 3 Epistemic Injustice and Inquiry
- 4 Is Comparative Philosophical Inquiry Risky Business?
- 5 To Counter Propaganda and Disinformation, Think Beyond Modernity
- 6 Transcultural Inquiry and the Method of Philosophical Sublation
- 7 The Zetetic Significance of Unpossessed Evidence
- 8 Inquiry and Normative Defeat
- 9 Navigating Inquiry
- 10 In Defense of Open-Minded Inquiry Into Crazy Philosophical Arguments
- 11 Explanatory Inquiry, Achievement, and Enhancement
- 12 Inquiry and Higher-Order Evidence
- 13 Inquiry and Underdetermination
- 14 The Science Contract: Scientific Inquiry, Public Trust in Science, and the Division of Zetetic Labor
- 15 Instruments as Muses of Inquiry
- 16 Inquiry in the Entangled Bank – Translating and Interpreting Causation in Biology
- 17 Reshuffling the Deck: p4c Hawaii and Special Education
- Index