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5. Inquiry

Chapter of: Knowledge: A Human Interest Story(pp. 125–152)

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Title5. Inquiry
ContributorBrian Weatherson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0425.05
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0425/chapters/10.11647/obp.0425.05
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBrian Weatherson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-11-21
Long abstractOn the theory of this book, if something is known, it is available to use as a starting point in inquiry. It is natural to move from that view to the view that it is irrational to inquire into what one already knows. But recent work on inquiry shows that this isn’t right; depending on what one wants to do in an inquiry one may want to deliberately set aside some things one knows. And that might mean inquiry into what one already knows, what we ordinarily call double-checking, is reasonable. This fact is used to respond to an influential objection by Jessica Brown to the style of argument I use in chapter 2.
Page rangepp. 125–152
Print length28 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Brian Weatherson

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Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-141X
https://brian.weatherson.org/

Brian Weatherson is the Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His previous books are Normative Externalism (OUP, 2019), and A History of Philosophy Journals, Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013 (Michigan Publishing, 2022). Brian has over 80 journal articles and book chapters; information about them is at https://brian.weatherson.org/.