On What We Know We Don't Know: Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and How Questions Shape Them

In this collection of essays, Bromberger explores the centrality of questions and predicaments they create in scientific research. He discusses the nature of explanation, theory, and the foundations of linguistics.
A collection of nine papers, previously scattered across many publications, covering topics as diverse as the nature of explanation, the ambiguity of the word theory, the varieties of ignorance, the limits of rationality in the choice of questions, and the ontology of linguistics. More broadly, about how science struggles against limitations on the ability to conceive, formulate, connect, and assess questions and answers. --Book News