ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author offers an account of questioning as an epistemic practice. She approaches this by providing a genealogical account of questioning, inspired by the genealogical account of knowledge presented by Craig. The genealogical approach serves, in the first instance, as a basis for establishing and evaluating the descriptive claim that questioning is an epistemic practice. A genealogical account of questioning examines the role or function of questioning in our epistemic communities. The focus on good questioning, moreover, brings the significance of the practice for contemporary virtue epistemology to the fore. How the questioners cultivate good questioning is a topic of interest for any social virtue epistemologists concerned with the healthy and prosperous functioning of our epistemic world. The social virtue of questioning takes on a subtly different sense in the light of these types of examples and is an enticing topic for another time.
