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Mondy, Brian J.

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Answering questions: The aims and value of inquiry.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Answering questions: The aims and value of inquiry./
Author:	Mondy, Brian J.
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: 4176.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-11A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3468284
ISBN:	9781124821511

Answering questions: The aims and value of inquiry.
Mondy, Brian J.

Answering questions: The aims and value of inquiry. - 241 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: 4176.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Miami, 2011.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation provides an account of the aims of rational inquiry with the purpose of explaining the value of truth, information, justification, understanding, and knowledge. I argue that inquirers ought to have two chief and competing goals: to pursue information, and to avoid error. Inquirers ought to want answers that fully satisfy their demands for information, but they should also want those answers to be true. These goals come into conflict, since an agent aiming solely to avoid error could reject any putative information, while an agent aiming solely at pursuing information could accept any putative information regardless of the evidence. Rational inquirers must, then, have some way of balancing their competing aims. I argue that rational inquirers must strike this balance by appealing to the practical reasons for which they are inquiring, which entails that the theory of inquiry has an essential pragmatic element. In pursuing her primary aims an inquirer will need to pursue justification---an account of which is provided---and also ought to be concerned to avoid the luck that is present in Gettier cases. These reflections explain why knowledge has played such a central role in epistemology, since I argue that successful inquiry will result in a form of internalist knowledge.

ISBN: 9781124821511Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Answering questions: The aims and value of inquiry.
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