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Preface | vii | |
1. | Introduction | 1 |
1. | Preliminaries | 1 |
2. | Questions and Knowledge | 2 |
3. | Questions and Answers | 3 |
4. | Issues of Taxonomy | 5 |
2. | Rudiments of Question Epistemology | 9 |
1. | Presuppositions | 9 |
2. | Formalism | 14 |
3. | Issues Regarding the Legitimacy of Questions: Question Resolution | 17 |
4. | Hypothetical Questions | 19 |
5. | The Knowledge-Relativity of Questions | 21 |
6. | Depths of Ignorance | 23 |
3. | Fallibilism and the Pursuit of Truth | 27 |
1. | Skepticism and Risk | 27 |
2. | Fallibilism and Its Implications | 32 |
3. | The Pursuit of Truth | 34 |
4. | Question Dynamics | 41 |
1. | Question Exfoliation | 41 |
2. | Kant's Principle | 45 |
3. | Illegitimate Questions | 50 |
5. | Questions and Scientific Progress | 57 |
1. | The Problem of Progress | 57 |
2. | Quality Poses Problems | 62 |
3. | Applicative Efficacy as the Key to Progress | 64 |
6. | On Learned Ignorance | 67 |
1. | Introduction | 67 |
2. | The Vagaries of Vagueness | 69 |
3. | Cognitive Risk | 71 |
4. | Fuller Information Does not Assure Safety | 74 |
5. | Ignorance can Have Its Compensations | 76 |
6. | The Cognitive Life Offers No Guarantees: It is a Matter of Calculated Risk | 79 |
7. | The Rationale of Rationality | 80 |
7. | Against Cognitive Relativism | 83 |
1. | What's Wrong with Relativism | 83 |
2. | What's Right with Objectivism | 85 |
3. | Objectivity and the Circumstantial Universality of Reason | 88 |
4. | Objectivity and the Complexity of the First Person Plural | 92 |
5. | Other Cultures | 94 |
6. | Abandoning Objectivity is Pragmatically Self-Defeating | 96 |
7. | The Charge of Circularity | 97 |
8. | Conclusion | 101 |
Summary of Notation and Symbols | 105 | |
Name Index | 107 |
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