We are inquirers. Most, or at least a large part, of our beliefs and actions follow from our having asked ourselves, and tried to answer, more or less consciously and conscientiously, a question we had previously opened in thought, which can be characterised as having inquired into the question at…

The study of knowledge and understanding has a very rich tradition in philosophy that dates back to the works of Plato and Aristotle. The reason for this is that both these notions denote particularly valuable cognitive standings whose natures raise fundamental questions concerning the type of access to reality rational…

Suspension of judgement undeniably has a very rich history in philosophy. It emerges in the Stoics’ discussions of the possibility of knowledge. It is central to Sextus Empiricus’s Pyrrhonian views and is obviously closely related to doubt, which plays a crucial role in Descartes’ theory of knowledge. Strikingly, however, suspension…