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    Study days - Science studies

    Inferences and Proofs

    Since its birth, logic has been concerned with the study of correct reasonings or, more specifically, of proofs. A proof should have the epistemic power to provide us with justification for the judgement or assertion which it ends with. This power is, from a different point of view, the power to compel one to accept the conclusion of the proof. Which forms of reasoning can be said to have such power? And above all, how can they exert an epistemic compulsion? According to Descartes, a correct reasoning is nothing but a chain of valid inferences. The epistemic power of proofs should therefore depend on the epistemic power of valid inferences. The problem then becomes: what is an inference? And why valid inferences have an epistemic force? These question, far from being psychological in nature, involve epistemology, logic and mathematics.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

    Producing knowledge about human activity

    Third congress of the Société internationale d’ergologie

    L’activité humaine est un objet de connaissances particulier. Elle se distingue des autres objets de connaissances, notamment des objets inertes et des objets vivants non humains (végétaux et animaux) par le fait qu’elle est le lieu de débats de normes. Le mode de production de connaissances qui la concerne doit nécessairement tenir compte de cette spécificité. Le troisième congrès de la Société internationale d'éergologie se donne pour objectif de faire le point sur toutes les implications épistémologiques, praxéologiques et axiologiques de cette nécessité, implications qui ont des conséquences directes sur le gouvernement et la gestion du travail et du politique.

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