What is a rational opinion? What is a good reason to believe something? Under what conditions do we possess knowledge?
Do we have the right to say or do something only if we base it not on mere opinion, but on things we know? And what's the point, in the end, of having knowledge, or justified opinions? These epistemological questions, whose importance and centrality in the history of philosophy are easy to see, do not always receive the attention they deserve in France.
Do we have the right to say or do something only if we base it not on mere opinion, but on things we know? And what's the point, in the end, of having knowledge, or justified opinions? These epistemological questions, whose importance and centrality in the history of philosophy are easy to see, do not always receive the attention they deserve in France.
The primary aim of the "Knowledge and its Reasons" symposium, coordinated by Benoit Gaultier and Jean-Marie Chevalier under the aegis of Professor Claudine Tiercelin, is to help place these epistemological debates at the heart of current French philosophy. The colloquium is also intended to be a founding moment for the research that will be carried out by each of its participants, within the epistemological studies group that the Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge has chosen to host.