Socratic Epistemology - Softcover

Hintikka, Jaakko

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9780521616515: Socratic Epistemology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521616514 ISBN 13: 9780521616515
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jaakko Hintikka is an internationally renowned philosopher known as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry, as well as one of the architects of distributive normal forms, possible-worlds semantics, tree methods, infinitely deep logics, and present-day-theory of inductive generalization. Currently a Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, he is the author of more than thirty books and has received a number of honors, most recently the Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy, for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis for modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521616514
ISBN 13 
9780521616515
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
248
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