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On Asking Oneself Questions| title | On Asking Oneself Questions |
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| start_date | 2025/11/14 |
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| schedule | 12h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle Langevin |
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| summary | What does a successful intellectual life consist in? Certainly, it involves having the right cognitive attitudes — attitudes that are properly responsive to the evidence one possesses. But a successful intellectual life is also one in which inquiries (i.e. the search for new evidence) are properly pursued. In my talk, I will focus on the norms that govern inquiry. This is one of the most debated topics in current epistemology (the so-called zetetic turn). However, while epistemologists usually propose norms of inquiry that tell us when inquiry should not be undertaken, I would like, in this presentation, to propose a positive norm — a norm that tells us when we ought to inquire. In short, I will defend the idea that one ought to inquire into the answer to a question whenever one asks oneself that question. Just as the illocutionary act of promising gives rise to obligations, so too does the act of asking oneself a question generate a requirement to seek evidential reasons in order to answer the question posed. |
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| responsibles | Buehler |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/11/10 08:08 UTC |
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