Inquiry

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.

Autorentext

Aaron B. Creller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of North Florida. His research areas are cross-cultural approaches to epistemology and philosophy of science. His recent monograph is the 2018 Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology.

Jonathan Matheson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida and is the Director of the Florida Blue Center for Ethics, where he is also a Distinguished Faculty Fellow. His research interests are in epistemology where his work has focused on the epistemic significance of disagreement, as well as the nature and value of epistemic autonomy.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Is Skeptical Inquiry Possible? 2. Lysistrata's Lament: Interrogative Analogues 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