Asking and Answering

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 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.

Inhalt:
Preface and Introduction
1 Ivano Ciardelli: Why We Need a Question Semantics

1A Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion: Comments on Why We Need a Question Semanctics by Ivano Ciardelli

1B Manfred Krifka: In Defense of Question Diversity: Comments on Ciardelli

2 Manfred Krifka: Modelling Questions in Commitment Spaces

2A Moritz Cordes: Partialism in Krifka's Approach to Interpreting Polar Questions

3 Andrzej Wiśniewski: An Essay on Inferential Erotetic Logig

4 David Hitchcock: Justifying Questions: What Kinds, How, and Why

4A Victoria Oertel: Justifying Questions: A Key to Understanding Inferences Involving Questions?

5 Moritz Cordes: How to Arrive at Questions

5A Lani Watson: How to Arrive at Questions

6 Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion: The Method of Socratic Proofs: From the Logic of Questions to Proof Theory

6A Jared Millson: Comments on Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion's The Method of Socratic Proofs

7 Jared Millson: Accepting & Rejecting Questions: First Steps toward a Bilateralism for Erotetic Logic

7A Joshua Habgood-Coote: Comments on Jared Millson's Acceping & Rejecting Questions

8 Floris Roelofsen: Questions and Indeterminate Reference

8A David Hitchcock: Comments onf Floris Roelofsen's Questions and Indeterminate Reference

Autor:inneninformation: Dr. Moritz Cordes ist an der Universität Greifswald tätig.