@inproceedings{7f3e0a1beb904dc88d184a8e0ca86309,
title = "Inquiry, argumentation and knowledge",
author = "Risto Hilpinen",
note = "Funding Information: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways in which inquiry and argumentation can change people's opinions, and the conditions which make people's opinions susceptible to change by inquiry and argumentation. I shall use as my basic epistemic concept the concept of an information system. By an information system I understand a set of propositions, together with a system of evidential relationships among the propositions; in other words, an information system is a potential description of what some person might accept as true in some situation or at some time. The expression {"}information system{"} is (approximately) synonymous with the expression {"}belief system{"} often used in contemporary epistemology, and in the following I shall occasionally use the latter expression. However, the expression {"}belief system{"} may be slightly misleading for my purposes, because philosophers tend to regard beliefs as mental or psychological states, as something located in a person's head or 1 This paper is based on research supported by Finnish State Council of the Humanities grant No. 09/053. Earlier versions of this paper have been presented at the conference {"}The Dynamics of Belief and Knowledge{"}, Lund University (Lund, Sweden), August 24 - 26, 1989) and in philosophy colloquia at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand, May 1989) and the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida, November 1989). I wish to thank the participants of these meetings for comments and discussion, and Mrs. Rita Luoma for assistance in the preparation of the paper.; Workshop on the Logic of Theory Change, 1989 ; Conference date: 13-10-1989 Through 15-10-1989",
year = "1991",
doi = "10.1007/BFb0018414",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783540535676",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "1--18",
editor = "Michael Morreau and Andre Fuhrmann",
booktitle = "The Logic of Theory Change - Workshop, Proceedings",
}