Inquiry

by Robert C. Stalnaker

The abstract structure of inquiry - the process of acquiring and changing beliefs about the world - is the focus of this book which takes the position that the "pragmatic" rather than the "linguistic" approach better solves the philosophical problems about the nature of mental representation, and better accounts for the phenomena of thought and speech. It discusses propositions and propositional attitudes (the cluster of activities that constitute inquiry) in general and takes up the way beliefs change in response to potential new information, suggesting that conditional propositions should be understood as projections of epistemic policies onto the world.Robert C. Stalnaker is a professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. A Bradford Book.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Robert Culp Stalnaker

Reviews

[Louna]

just looked through it to see if interesting—no