Questions and Questioning (Grundlagen Der Kommunikation Und Kognition / Foundations of)

Introduction: The Nature of Problematic Knowledge Section I: Questioning and Philosophy 1. Toward a History of the Question 2. Unanswerable Questions? Section II: Questioning and Science 3. Questioning and Problems in Philosophy of Science: Problem-Solving Versus Directly Truth-Seeking Epistemologies 4. Questioning in Science 5. Aspects of Problem Solving 6. Questioning in Education Section III: Questioning, Language and Discourse 7. The Interrogative Theory of Meaning and Reference 8. Questions of Identity in Discourse 9. “Knowing Whether“, “Knowing Who”, and Epistemic Closure Section IV: Questions and Reasoning 10. Questions-Asking Fallacies 11. Understanding Answers to Questions 12. Vain Questions Section V: The Context of Questioning 13. On the Pragmatics of Answers 14. The Epistemics of the Question-Answer Sequence and Its Psycho-Pragmatic Limitations 15. Questioning in Conversation Section VI: Questioning and Literary Rhetoric: Kafka as Example 16. The Parable, the Paradox, the Question 17. Kafka or the Existentiality of Questioning Bibliographical Notes Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum

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