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 of 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.

Dr. Moritz Cordes ist an der Universität Greifswald tätig.

Preface and Introduction 1 Ivano Ciardelli: Why We Need a Question Semantics 1A Dorota Leszczynska-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 Wisniewski: 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 Leszczynska-Jasion: The Method of Socratic Proofs: From the Logic of Questions to Proof Theory 6A Jared Millson: Comments on Dorota Leszczynska-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