Rules for the Inquiring Mind

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry. It tackles not only philosophical issues regarding what inquiry is, but also issues regarding how it should and should not be executed.

Luis Rosa is a philosophy lecturer at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. His research is primarily in epistemology with additional interests in psychology, AI and literature. Rosa's work has been published in Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly and Erkenntnis, and in edited book collections from Routledge, Wiley, Oxford UP and Brill.

1. The Conceptual Groundwork 2. Settling a Question and the Requisite Information 3. A One Possible World Model of Inquiry 4. Structural Conditions and a New Model with Two Norms 5. Critical Scrutiny of the Go Gather Norm 6. Critical Scrutiny of the Go Figure Norm 7. Critical Scrutiny of the Knowledge Norm 8. The Anti-Impossibility Norm of Inquiry 9. The Instrumental Benefits of Violating Instrumental Norms 10. Pseudo Questions and Interrogative Sentences 11. A System of Instrumental Norms of Inquiry; Index.