How can questions be informative before they are answered?
Författare
Summary, in English
We examine a special case of inquiry games inspired by Hintikka's interrogative model of inquiry, and give an account of the informational import of asking questions. We focus on yes-no questions, which always carry information about the questioner's strategy, but never about the state of Nature, and show how strategic information reduces uncertainty through inferences about other players' goals and strategies. This uncertainty cannot always be captured by information structures of classical game theory. We conclude on the connection with Gricean pragmatics and contextual constraints on interpretation.
Avdelning/ar
- Teoretisk filosofi
- Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
189-204
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Episteme
Volym
9
Issue
2
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Edinburgh University Press
Ämne
- Philosophy
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1750-0117