The aim of the workshop is to investigate the nature of good reasoning and its place within the normative domain. We will explore how good reasoning should be understood and how it relates to other central normative notions, such as reasons, ought, value, and fittingness. The workshop seeks to foster discussion of questions including: What are the norms and aims of reasoning? Can we explain what it means to reason well in terms of other normative or non-normative notions? And what roles do normative reasons play in good reasoning?
Talks by:
- Ava Geenen (Chapel Hill): The New Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Frank Hofmann (Luxembourg): Inference, reasoning, and inquiry
- Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld): Epistemic Reasons and the Balancing View of Ought
- Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow): Mental interstate movement: It’s the journey that counts
- David Lussi (Bern): Explaining Good Reasoning in Terms of Reasons
- Alessandra Marra (Munich): Logical Norms and Normative Logical Pluralism
- Conor McHugh (Nancy): What (if Anything) is Deductive Inference?
The workshop is hosted by the University of Bern’s Institute of Philosophy and organized by David Lussi and Andreas Müller. If you would like to attend, please write to andreas.mueller@unibe.ch before 6 September.