Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery

Origin of the Essays vii Introduction 1. "Is Logic the Key to all Good Reasoning?" 1 2. "The Role of Logic in Argumentation" 25 3. (with Ilpo Halonen and Arto Mutanen) "Interrogative Logic as a General Theory of Reasoning" 47 4. "What Is Abduction? The Fundamental Problem of Contemporary Epistemology" 91 5. "True and False Logics of Scientific Discovery" 115 6. "A Spectrum of Logic of Questioning" 127 7. "What Is the Logic of Experimental Inquiry?" 143 8. "The Concept of Induction in the Light of the Interrogative Approach to Inquiry" 161 9. (with Ilpo Halonen) "Semantics and Pragmatics for Why-Questions" 183 10. "The Varieties of Information and Scientific Explanation" 205 11. "On The Incommensurability of Theories" 227 12. "Theory-Ladenness of Observations as a Test Case of Kuhn' Approach to Scientific Inquiry" 241 13. Ramsey Sentences and the Meaning of Quantifiers" 251 14. Towards a General Theory of Identifiability" 267