Asking and Answering / / Moritz Cordes.

• VerfasserIn: Cordes, Moritz,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Gunter Narr Verlag,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)

Questions are everywhere and the ubiquitous activities of asking and answering, as most human activities, are susceptible to failure - at least from time to time. This volume offers several current approaches to the systematic study of questions and the surrounding activities and works toward supporting and improving these activities. The contributors formulate general problems for a formal treatment of questions, investigate specific kinds of questions, compare different frameworks with regard to how they regulate the activities of asking and answering of questions, and situate these activities in a wider framework of cognitive/epistemic discourse. From the perspectives of logic, linguistics, epistemology, and philosophy of language emerges a report on the state of the art of the theory of questions.

Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction 7 - 14 -- 1 Why We Need a Question Semantics 15 - 47 -- 1A Comments on Why We Need a Question Semantics by Ivano Ciardelli 48 - 54 -- 1B In Defense of Question Diversity: Comments on Ciardelli 55 - 62 -- 2 Modelling Questions in Commitment Spaces 63 - 95 -- 2A Partialism in Krifka's Approach to Interpreting Polar Questions 96 - 104 -- 3 An Essay on Inferential Erotetic Logic 105 - 138 -- 4 Justifying Questions: What Kinds, How, and Why 139 - 155 -- 4A Justifying Questions: A Key to Understanding Inferences Involving Questions? 156 - 164 -- 5 How to Arrive at Questions 165 - 175 -- 5A How to Arrive at Questions 176 - 182 -- 6 The Method of Socratic Proofs: From the Logic of Questions to Proof Theory 183 - 198 -- 6A Comments on Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion's The Method of Socratic Proofs 199 - 210 -- 7 Accepting & Rejecting Questions: First Steps toward a Bilateralism for Erotetic Logic 211 - 232 -- 7A Comments on Jared Millson's Accepting & Rejecting Questions 233 - 240 -- 8 Questions and Indeterminate Reference 241 - 252 -- 8A Comments on Floris Roelofsen's Questions and Indeterminate Reference 253 - 258 -- List of Contributors 259 - 259 -- Name Index 260 - -2 -- Leere Seite -1 - 264.