Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2023
Benoit Gaultier
Pages 64-71
https://doi.org/10.5840/tht202522441
Can Inquiry Aim at Truth?
Davidson¡¯s non-normative argument for the claim that inquiry does not aim at truth has not received much attention in the epistemological literature of the past two decades. As far as I know, only Christopher Hookway (2012) and Christoph Kelp (2021) have discussed it. Moreover, they have both rejected it, on similar grounds. After reconstructing Davidson¡¯s argument, I turn to Hookway¡¯s and Kelp¡¯s criticisms and show why Davidson¡¯s argument can in fact resist them.