Chapter 4: Structuralism and the Interrogative Model of Inquiry

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Sintonen
Keyword(s):  
Interrogative Model ◽  
Interrogative Model Of Inquiry

scholarly journals Towards Paraconsistent Inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Baskent
Keyword(s):  
Formal System ◽  
Interrogative Model ◽  
Strategy Logic ◽  
Interrogative Model Of Inquiry ◽  
Logic Of Paradox

In this paper, we discuss Hintikka’s theory of interrogative approach to inquiry with a focus on bracketing. First, we dispute the use of bracketing in the interrogative model of inquiry arguing that bracketing provides an indispensable component of an inquiry. Then, we suggest a formal system based on strategy logic and logic of paradox to describe the epistemic aspects of an inquiry, and obtain a naturally paraconsistent system. We then apply our framework to some cases to illustrate its use. 

On the logic of an interrogative model of scientific inquiry

Synthese ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaakko Hintikka
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Interrogative Model

The Interrogative Model: Historical Inquiry and Explanation

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159
Author(s):  
Eric Brook
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Interrogative Model ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Valuable Role ◽  
Historical Thought ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article commends Jaakko Hintikka's interrogative model of reasoning as an aid to historiography in relation to historical inquiry and explanation. After an initial discussion of David Hackett Fischer's appeal to the "logic of historical thought" in terms of his overlapping complementary emphases with Hintikka's interrogative model, a critical evaluation is given of Fischer's brief but strong comments regarding the role of why-questions in historical explanation. From there the main part of the article is given over to how the interrogative model provides an account of the nature of explanation in general using Hintikka's recently published work on explanation theory. The theory of explanation that uses the interrogative model is applied to historical explanation and illustrated in the way the interrogative model serves a descriptively-valuable role in historiography by reference to historical inquiry and explanation in Herodotus.

scholarly journals Formal Methodology

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 296-313
Author(s):  
А. Муттанен
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Basic Properties ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Interrogative Model ◽  
Covering Law

In general terms, methodology is a study of the entire scientific inquiry process: how science arrives at the posited goal. There are different kinds of goals for scientific inquiry. For example, goals may be epistemic (truth), aesthetic (simplicity) or several kinds of pragmatic goals (efficiency, economy, and explanatory power). It is not the concern of methodology what this goal happens to be. More generally, formal methods turned out to be effective tools in philosophical analysis, in the paper we will show this introducing the interrogative model and some basic properties of it, let us mention the covering law theorem. Finally we will formulate some philosophical implications of the model introduced.

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