Artūrs Logins (Université Laval) will give a presentation titled “Inquiry and Reasons” in the GRIN conferences series,

*The conference will also be presented on Zoom.

Abstract

Knowledge, certainty, and understanding are all plausible candidates for constituting aims of genuine inquiry. However, a mere pluralist account of aims (and corresponding norms) of inquiry that lacks a more fundamental theoretical motivation is somewhat arbitrary. The aim of this paper is to provide further motivation for a pluralist approach. The key aspect of our proposal is to focus on the possession of sufficient reasons to believe as an overarching aim of theoretical inquiry.