Certainty and infallibility

Conference coordinated by Benoit Gaultier.

Certainty, like knowledge, has long been at the heart of epistemological debate. Whether prized as a response to skepticism, criticized as an illusory epistemological ideal or decried as a source of dogmatism, certainty is one of the most fundamental epistemological notions.

While contemporary epistemological discussions have somewhat neglected it, the colloquium "Certitude and Infallibility", organized by the Groupe de Recherche en Épistémologie (GRÉ) of Professor Tiercelin's Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge, would like to contribute to the reappearance of the epistemological importance of the notion of certainty. By comparing certainty and infallibility, the colloquium aims in particular to question the relationship between these two epistemological ideals: one, usually held to be subjective, which would exclude all possibility of doubt; the other, usually held to be objective, which would exclude all possibility of error.

This second GRÉ colloquium will be held half in French and half in English.