Inquisitiveness and abduction, Charles Peirce and moral imagination
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2011
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Harris, H.
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Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 2011; 30(3-4):293-305
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Inquisitiveness has been found to be a characteristic of successful global managers. The paper distinguishes inquisitiveness from purposeless curiosity and shows that it is a virtue. It suggests that the practice of inquisitiveness is akin to abduction, the method of reasoning described by Charles S. Peirce distinct from deduction and induction, and essential to creativity. It then suggests that an enhanced capacity for inquisitiveness and abduction will increase the capacity for moral imagination and hence improve moral decision-making (and perhaps moral behaviour).
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Copyright 2011 Business & Professional Ethics Journal