One Kind of Asking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4909201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Whitcomb (0000-0002-5521-6883, Western Washington University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 266 |
| Pages | 148-168 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqw027 |
| OpenAlex | W2325863764 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 20 |
This paper extends several themes from recent work on norms of assertion. It does as much by applying those themes to the speech act of asking. In particular, it argues for the view that there is a species of asking which is governed by a certain norm, a norm to the effect that one should ask a question only if one doesn't know its answer.
Epistemology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Philosophy · Psychology
In Defense of Clutter
Rejecting the Question
The Informativeness Norm of Assertion
John Cook Wilson on the indefinability of knowledge
Suspension, Entailment, and Presupposition
Interrogatives, inquiries, and exam questions
Group Inquiry
Lying with Uninformative Speech Acts
Finding the Right Answer
Ignorance, soundness, and norms of inquiry
Should epistemology take the zetetic turn
Guidance and mainstream epistemology
Suboptimal knowledge
Valuable ignorance
Occurrent knowledge is the sole aim of inquiry
Fit-related Reasons to Inquire
Inquiring Minds Want to Improve
Inquiry for the mistaken and confused
Inclusive inquiry
Inquiry beyond knowledge
Hedging and the ignorance norm on inquiry
Knowledge, hope, and fallibilism
Questioning and addressee knowledge
Is there a norm against inquiry into pseudo-questions
Inquiry & the value of knowledge
Pointless facts and the normativity of ignorance
Infants Assume Questions Serve an Information-Seeking Function, Link Them to Interrogative Sentences and Differentiate Them From Assertions
Evoked questions and inquiring attitudes
Norms of Inquiry
Asking Expresses a Desire to Know
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |