12. Vain Questions

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction
4. The Nature of Problematic Knowledge 3
5. Section I: Questioning and Philosophy
6. 1. Toward a History of the Question 9
7. 2. Unanswerable Questions? 36
8. Section II: Questioning and Science
9. 3. Questioning and Problems in Philosophy of Science: Problem-Solving Versus Directly Truth- Seeking Epistemologies 43
10. 4. Questioning in Science 68
11. 5. Aspects of Problem Solving 81
12. 6. Questioning in Education 98
13. Section III: Questioning, Language and Discourse
14. 7. The Interrogative Theory of Meaning and Reference 121
15. 8. Questions of Identity in Discourse 144
16. 9. “Knowing Whether”, “Knowing Who”, and Epistemic Closure 182
17. Section IV: Questions and Reasoning
18. 10. Question-Asking Fallacies 195
19. 11. Understanding Answers to Questions 222
20. 12. Vain Questions 243
21. Section V: The Context of Questioning
22. 13. On the Pragmatics of Answers 255
23. 14. The Epistemics of the Question-Answer Sequence and Its Psycho-Pragmatic Limitations 280
24. 15. Questioning in Conversation 304
25. Section VI: Questioning and Literary Rhetoric: Kafka as Example
26. 16. The Parable, the Paradox, the Question 329
27. 17. Kafka or the Existentiality of Questioning 341
28. Biographical Notes 357
29. Bibliography 361
30. Index Nominum 377
31. Index Rerum 383
32. 393-394 393