Inquiring Attitudes and Erotetic Logic: Norms of Restriction and Expansion

Journal of the American Philosophical Association 10 (3):444-466 (2024)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

A fascinating recent turn in epistemology focuses on inquiring attitudes like wondering and being curious. Many have argued that these attitudes are governed by norms similar to those that govern our doxastic attitudes. Yet, to date, this work has only considered norms that might *prohibit* having certain inquiring attitudes (``norms of restriction''), while ignoring those that might *require* having them (``norms of expansion''). We aim to address that omission by offering a framework that generates norms of expansion for inquiring attitudes. The framework draws on inferential erotetic logic, which we explain and augment with some theorems. We explore several of the norms that it yields - some sympathetically, others unsympathetically.

Other Versions

No versions found

Similar books and articles

Inquiring Attitudes and Erotetic Logic: Norms of Restriction and Expansion.Dennis Whitcomb & Jared Millson - 2024 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 10 (3):444-466.
A Defeasible Calculus for Zetetic Agents.Jared A. Millson - 2021 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 30 (1):3-37.
Inquiry and Confirmation.Arianna Falbo - 2021 - Analysis 81 (4):622–631.
(Ir)rational Inquiry.Taylor-Grey Miller & Andrew del Rio - 2024 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.
The rules and aims of inquiry.Javier Gonzalez de Prado - forthcoming - The Philosophical Quarterly.
(Ir)rational Inquiry.Andrew del Rio & Taylor-Grey Miller - 2023 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 12 (1):35-42.
A Reply to the Synchronist.Abelard Podgorski - 2016 - Mind 125 (499):859-871.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-02-26

Downloads
1,035 (#21,337)

6 months
271 (#9,550)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Jared A. Millson
Rhodes College
Dennis Whitcomb
Western Washington University

Citations of this work

The Knowledge Norm for Inquiry.Christopher Willard-Kyle - 2023 - Journal of Philosophy 120 (11):615-640.
Norms of Inquiry.Eliran Haziza - 2023 - Philosophy Compass 18 (12):e12952.
The Zetetic.Arianna Falbo - forthcoming - In Kurt Sylvan, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy & Matthias Steup, The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd edition. Wiley Blackwell.
Ignorance, soundness, and norms of inquiry.Christopher Willard-Kyle - 2024 - Philosophical Studies 181 (6):1477-1485.

View all 7 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Anarchy, State, and Utopia.Robert Nozick - 1974 - New York: Basic Books.
Knowledge and Lotteries.John Hawthorne - 2005 - Philosophical Quarterly 55 (219):353-356.
Why Suspend Judging?Jane Friedman - 2017 - Noûs 51 (2):302-326.

View all 40 references / Add more references