{"id":1578,"date":"2023-04-24T19:50:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2023-04-24T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T18:50:45","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2022-23-session-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2022-23-session-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>The Puzzle of Defective and Permissible Inquiry<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michele Palmira (Complutense University of Madrid)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">28 April 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0On the one hand, it seems that there\u2019s something epistemically off with inquiring into questions which don\u2019t have true answers \u2013 call this verdict Defective Questioning. On the other hand, however,\u00a0there are scenarios in which we are epistemically permitted to inquire into questions which have no true answers\u00a0\u2013 call this verdict Permissible Questioning.\u00a0 In the first part of the paper I present data in favour of both verdicts and show that they\u00a0give rise to a puzzle: how is it that inquiries into questions which don\u2019t have true answers can both be defective and permissible from an epistemic point of view?\u00a0In the second part of the paper I explore some solutions to the puzzle, arguing that the most promising way to approach it rests on the distinction between evaluative and prescriptive norms of inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Puzzle of Defective and Permissible Inquiry Michele Palmira (Complutense University of Madrid) &nbsp; 28 April 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0On the one hand, it seems that there\u2019s something epistemically off with inquiring into questions which don\u2019t have true answers \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}