Socratic epistemology: Explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning

Socratic Epistemology challenges most current work in epistemology-which deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired-by discussing instead the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place. Jaakko Hintikka's model of information-seeking i...

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Tác giả chính: Hintikka, Jaakko
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-350732014-01-20T00:14:53Z Socratic epistemology: Explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning Hintikka, Jaakko Knowledge Socratic Epistemology challenges most current work in epistemology-which deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired-by discussing instead the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place. Jaakko Hintikka's 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. Hintikka argues that the quest by philosophers for a definition of knowledge is ill-conceived and that the entire notion of knowledge should be replaced by the concept of information. And he further offers an analysis of the different meanings of the concept of information and of their interrelations. The result is a new and illuminating approach to the field of epistemology. 2013-08-15T02:58:26Z 2013-08-15T02:58:26Z 2007 Book http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35073 en application/pdf Cambridge University
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Hintikka, Jaakko
Socratic epistemology: Explorations of knowledge-seeking by questioning
description Socratic Epistemology challenges most current work in epistemology-which deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired-by discussing instead the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place. Jaakko Hintikka's 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. Hintikka argues that the quest by philosophers for a definition of knowledge is ill-conceived and that the entire notion of knowledge should be replaced by the concept of information. And he further offers an analysis of the different meanings of the concept of information and of their interrelations. The result is a new and illuminating approach to the field of epistemology.
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