Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning

HINTIKKA, Jaakko

ISBN 10: 0521851017 / ISBN 13: 9780521851015

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

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Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. viii, 239 pp. Near fine in original paper-covered boards with remainder mark to foot of text block.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521851017
• ISBN 13: 9780521851015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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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.

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.