Perplexity and Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Structures of Questioning

Clark, Malcolm

ISBN 10: 9024712890 / ISBN 13: 9789024712892

Published by Springer, 1972

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9024712890.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perplexity and Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Structures of Questioning
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9024712890
• ISBN 13: 9789024712892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

In making his distinction between revisionary and descriptive metaphysics, P.F. Strawson wrote that the former has some value provided that its "partial vision" is at the service of the latter, "which needs no justification at all beyond that of inquiry in general." (Individuals, p. 9) Perhaps we feel no need to ask what justification there is for inquiry in general. But if we do recognize any such need, then we discover that inquiry is self-justifying. The more I put it into question, the more I bring the theme of my inquiry to light in my performance of inquiring. Questioning is the business of philosophers. They are now content to leave the search for detailed information to experts in the various disciplines that have won their independence from philosophy. The questioning a philosopher conducts is of the 'second-order'. He asks about the status of various sorts of questions, the types of knowledge they yield and of con­ fusion into which they lead.