Tag: Inquiry
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The relationship between direct speech and philosophical inquiry
Direct Speech and Philosophical Inquiry I believe we creatures of habit, we too-clever beings have learned all forms of indirect speech. To overcome indirectness, I have sought to teach direct speech. Indeed, I have insisted that a philosophical conversation cannot begun unless the philosophical guide and the conversation partner engage exclusively in direct speech. In…
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Art of Inquiry: Interlude–Meno’s Paradox of Inquiry
Excerpt from The Art of Inquiry. Interlude comes after Chapter 1 and before Chapter 2. Enjoy. * Interlude: Meno’s Paradox of Inquiry Is Meno fed up with Socrates? Could he be throwing up his hands when he accuses Socrates–earnestly or in jest–of being a ‘magician,’ of casting spells and bewitching and enchanting him? Or, likening Socrates…
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Inquiry illuminated
Excerpt from The Art of Inquiry, Chapter 1. * 1. Inquiry Illuminated What is it — Distinguishing Inquiry from Other ‘Genres’ (Methods, Theories) — Why it matters 1.1. Preliminary Definition An inquiry is an unrehearsed genre whose principal aims are, first, to reveal to us what we don’t know but thought we did and, second,…
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Confusion and Clarity: The Art of Inquiry in the Context of Social Enterprise
Course Description “Confusion and Clarity: The Art of Inquiry in the Context of Social Enterprise” This two-day workshop, to be held at Kaos Pilots on August 28 and 29, aims to teach the third-year student how to inquire into the things that matter most. By this point in her educational experience, the student should be…
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What makes the right question right? (II)
I have been writing about the art of inquiry with a view to understanding, in a preliminary fashion, how any philosophical inquiry of the kind I have in mind can ever get underway. The implicit aim in this endeavor is to show that philosophical inquiry is ‘self-transformative’: that it is the kind of activity that,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 