The importance of questions is beyond doubt. But the degree of attention paid to them in logic and linguistics is still less than they deserve. (from the Preface) What is a question? How to represent questions in formal languages? How to model reasoning in which questions are in…
"In today's society, everything is in question. The reflexive questioning of modernity has fundamentally problematized society, including philosophy, which has experienced a crisis of metaphysics. Michel Meyer's problematology answers this crisis by questioning questioning, unfo…
Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discourse of questioning and answering. John Bruin examines the "logic" of interrogation and makes the case that intentionality itself has the structure of question and answer. Here, he…
"What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the problematological synthesis? These are the main questions treated in this book. A…