1st Edition
Rules for the Inquiring Mind A Unified Framework of Norms of Inquiry
Introduction
1. The conceptual groundwork
2. Settling a question and the requisite information
3. A possible‑worlds model of inquiry
4. New model, new norms
5. Critical scrutiny of the Go Gather Norm
6. Critical scrutiny of the Go Figure Norm
7. Critical scrutiny of the Knowledge Norm
8. The Anti‑Impossibility Norm of Inquiry
9. The instrumental benefits of violating instrumental norms
10. Norms of inquiry vs. norms of interrogative attitudes,
and a norm against pseudo‑questions
11. A system of instrumental norms of inquiry
References
Index
Biography
Luis Rosa is a philosophy lecturer at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. His research is primarily in epistemology with additional interests in psychology, AI and literature. Rosa’s work has been published in Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly and Erkenntnis, and in edited book collections from Routledge, Wiley, Oxford UP and Brill.
