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Arturs LOGINS ABSTRACT: According to evidentialism, only evidential or truth-conducive reasons matter for the rationality of belief. According to pragmatism, pragmatic reasons can contribute to making a belief rational. The debate between evidentialism and pragmatism appears to have reached a stalemate. In this paper, we revisit the debate by focusing on the question and inquiry-sensitive view of belief and the …

Seyyed Mohsen ESLAMI ABSTRACT: Reasons are not the same. Normative reasons need to be distinguished from non-normative reasons. Then, due to some considerations, we have to draw a distinction between explanatory reasons and motivating reasons. In this paper, I focus on a rather implicit assumption in drawing the explanatory-motivating distinction. Motivating reasons are mostly characterized as those reasons that the …