Willard-Kyle, Christopher (2024) Ignorance, soundness, and norms of inquiry. Philosophical Studies, 181 (6-7). pp. 1477-1485. ISSN 0031-8116
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The current literature on norms of inquiry features two families of norms: those that focus on an inquirer's ignorance and those that focus on the questions soundness. The author argues that it is possible to derive a soundness-style norm from a version of the ignorance norm.AI Topics:
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Abstract
The current literature on norms of inquiry features two families of norms: norms that focus on an inquirer’s ignorance and norms that focus on the question’s soundness. I argue that, given a factive conception of ignorance, it’s possible to derive a soundness-style norm from a version of the ignorance norm. A crucial lemma in the argument is that just as one can only be ignorant of a proposition if the proposition is true, so one can only be ignorant with respect to a question if the question is sound.
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Title | Ignorance, soundness, and norms of inquiry |
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Creators | Willard-Kyle, Christopher |
Identification Number | 10.1007/s11098-024-02161-3 |
Date | July 2024 |
Divisions | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy |
Publisher | Springer |
Additional Information | This project was funded, in part, by Therme Group. |
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URI | https://pub.demo35.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/219 |
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Item Type | Article |
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Depositing User | Unnamed user with email ejo1f20@soton.ac.uk |
Date Deposited | 11 Jun 2025 16:36 |
Revision | 21 |
Last Modified | 12 Jun 2025 10:57 |
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