Intuitions As Evidence

Author : Joel Pust
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136777073

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This book is concerned with the role of intuitions in the justification of philosophical theory. The author begins by demonstrating how contemporary philosophers, whether engaged in case-driven analysis or seeking reflective equilibrium, rely on intuitions as evidence for their theories. The author then provides an account of the nature of philosophical intuitions and distinguishes them from other psychological states. Finally, the author defends the use of intuitions as evidence by demonstrating that arguments for skepticism about their evidential value are either self-defeating or guilty of arbitrary and unjustified partiality towards non-intuitive modes of knowledge.

Author : Herman Cappelen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199644865

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Philosophy Without Intuitions by Herman Cappelen Pdf

The standard view of philosophical methodology is that philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence. Herman Cappelen argues that this claim is false, and reveals how it has encouraged pseudo-problems, presented misguided ideas of what philosophy is, and misled exponents of metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy.

Author : Joel Eric Pust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1398363390

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Intuitions As Evidence (PHD). by Joel Eric Pust Pdf

Author : Anthony Robert Booth,Darrell P. Rowbottom
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199609192

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Intuitions by Anthony Robert Booth,Darrell P. Rowbottom Pdf

Intuitions may seem to play a fundamental role in philosophy: but their role and their value have been challenged recently. What are intuitions? Should we ever trust them? And if so, when? Do they have an indispensable role in science--in thought experiments, for instance--as well as in philosophy? Or should appeal to intuitions be abandoned altogether? This collection brings together leading philosophers, from early to late career, to tackle such questions. It presents the state of the art thinking on the topic.

Author : Samuel Schindler,Anna Drożdżowicz,Karen Brøcker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192577054

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Linguistic Intuitions by Samuel Schindler,Anna Drożdżowicz,Karen Brøcker Pdf

This book examines the evidential status and use of linguistic intuitions, a topic that has seen increased interest in recent years. Linguists use native speakers' intuitions - such as whether or not an utterance sounds acceptable - as evidence for theories about language, but this approach is not uncontroversial. The two parts of this volume draw on the most recent work in both philosophy and linguistics to explore the two major issues at the heart of the debate. Chapters in the first part address the 'justification question', critically analysing and evaluating the theoretical rationale for the evidential use of linguistic intuitions. The second part discusses recent developments in the domain of experimental syntax, focusing on the question of whether gathering intuitions experimentally is epistemically and methodologically superior to the informal methods that have traditionally been used. The volume provides valuable insights into whether and how linguistic intuitions can be used in theorizing about language, and will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.

Author : Herman Cappelen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191631245

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Philosophy without Intuitions by Herman Cappelen Pdf

The claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence is almost universally accepted in current meta-philosophical debates and it figures prominently in our self-understanding as analytic philosophers. No matter what area you happen to work in and what views you happen to hold in those areas, you are likely to think that philosophizing requires constructing cases and making intuitive judgments about those cases. This assumption also underlines the entire experimental philosophy movement: only if philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence are data about non-philosophers' intuitions of any interest to us. Our alleged reliance on the intuitive makes many philosophers who don't work on meta-philosophy concerned about their own discipline: they are unsure what intuitions are and whether they can carry the evidential weight we allegedly assign to them. The goal of this book is to argue that this concern is unwarranted since the claim is false: it is not true that philosophers rely extensively (or even a little bit) on intuitions as evidence. At worst, analytic philosophers are guilty of engaging in somewhat irresponsible use of 'intuition'-vocabulary. While this irresponsibility has had little effect on first order philosophy, it has fundamentally misled meta-philosophers: it has encouraged meta-philosophical pseudo-problems and misleading pictures of what philosophy is.

Author : Hanno Sauer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262546706

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Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions by Hanno Sauer Pdf

An argument that moral reasoning plays a crucial role in moral judgment through episodes of rational reflection that have established patterns for automatic judgment foundation. Rationalists about the psychology of moral judgment argue that moral cognition has a rational foundation. Recent challenges to this account, based on findings in the empirical psychology of moral judgment, contend that moral thinking has no rational basis. In this book, Hanno Sauer argues that moral reasoning does play a role in moral judgment—but not, as is commonly supposed, because conscious reasoning produces moral judgments directly. Moral reasoning figures in the acquisition, formation, maintenance, and reflective correction of moral intuitions. Sauer proposes that when we make moral judgments we draw on a stable repertoire of intuitions about what is morally acceptable, which we have acquired over the course of our moral education—episodes of rational reflection that have established patterns for automatic judgment foundation. Moral judgments are educated and rationally amenable moral intuitions. Sauer engages extensively with the empirical evidence on the psychology of moral judgment and argues that it can be shown empirically that reasoning plays a crucial role in moral judgment. He offers detailed counterarguments to the anti-rationalist challenge (the claim that reason and reasoning play no significant part in morality and moral judgment) and the emotionist challenge (the argument for the emotional basis of moral judgment). Finally, he uses Joshua Greene's Dual Process model of moral cognition to test the empirical viability and normative persuasiveness of his account of educated intuitions. Sauer shows that moral judgments can be automatic, emotional, intuitive, and rational at the same time.

Author : Michael R. DePaul,William Ramsey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461643074

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Rethinking Intuition by Michael R. DePaul,William Ramsey Pdf

Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driven philosophical inquiry. Rethinking Intuition brings together a distinguished group of philosophers and psychologists to discuss these important issues. Students and scholars in both fields will find this book to be of great value.

Author : Anthony Robert Booth,Darrell P. Rowbottom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191669125

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Intuitions by Anthony Robert Booth,Darrell P. Rowbottom Pdf

Intuitions may seem to play a fundamental role in philosophy: but their role and their value have been challenged recently. What are intuitions? Should we ever trust them? And if so, when? Do they have an indispensable role in science—in thought experiments, for instance—as well as in philosophy? Or should appeal to intuitions be abandoned altogether? This collection brings together leading philosophers, from early to late career, to tackle such questions. It presents the state of the art thinking on the topic.

Author : Manhal Hamdo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031334801

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Epistemic Thought Experiments and Intuitions by Manhal Hamdo Pdf

This work investigates intuitions' nature, demonstrating how philosophers can best use them in epistemology. First, the author considers several paradigmatic thought experiments in epistemology that depict the appeal to intuition. He then argues that the nature of thought experiment-generated intuitions is not best explained by an a priori Platonism. Second, the book instead develops and argues for a thin conception of epistemic intuitions. The account maintains that intuition is neither a priori nor a posteriori but multi-dimensional. It is an intentional but non-propositional mental state that is also non-conceptual and non-phenomenal in nature. Moreover, this state is individuated by its progenitor, namely, the relevant thought experiment. Third, the author provides an argument for the evidential status of intuitions based on the correct account of the nature of epistemic intuition. The suggestion is the fitting-ness approach: intuition alone has no epistemic status. Rather, intuition has evidentiary value as long as it fits well with other pieces into a whole, namely, the pertinent thought experiment. Finally, the book addresses the key challenges raised by supporters of anti-centrality, according to which philosophers do not regard intuition as central evidence in philosophy. To that end, the author responds to them, showing that they fail to affect the account of intuition developed in this book. This text appeals to students and researchers working in epistemology.

Author : James McCosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Cognition
ISBN : HARVARD:HWF7I6

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The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated by James McCosh Pdf

Author : Max Emil Deutsch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262028950

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The Myth of the Intuitive by Max Emil Deutsch Pdf

A defense of traditional philosophical method against challenges from practitioners of “experimental philosophy.” In The Myth of the Intuitive, Max Deutsch defends the methods of analytic philosophy against a recent empirical challenge mounted by the practitioners of experimental philosophy (xphi). This challenge concerns the extent to which analytic philosophy relies on intuition—in particular, the extent to which analytic philosophers treat intuitions as evidence in arguing for philosophical conclusions. Experimental philosophers say that analytic philosophers place a great deal of evidential weight on people's intuitions about hypothetical cases and thought experiments. Deutsch argues forcefully that this view of traditional philosophical method is a myth, part of “metaphilosophical folklore,” and he supports his argument with close examinations of results from xphi and of a number of influential arguments in analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophy makes regular use of hypothetical examples and thought experiments, but, Deutsch writes, philosophers argue for their claims about what is true or not true in these examples and thought experiments. It is these arguments, not intuitions, that are treated as evidence for the claims. Deutsch discusses xphi and some recent xphi studies; critiques a variety of other metaphilosophical claims; examines such famous arguments as Gettier's refutation of the JTB (justified true belief) theory and Kripke's Gödel Case argument against descriptivism about proper names, and shows that they rely on reasoning rather than intuition; and finds existing critiques of xphi, the “Multiple Concepts” and “Expertise” replies, to be severely lacking.

Author : James McCosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Intuition
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000128359

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The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigted by James McCosh Pdf

Author : Samuel Schindler,Anna Drożdżowicz,Karen Brøcker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198840558

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Linguistic Intuitions by Samuel Schindler,Anna Drożdżowicz,Karen Brøcker Pdf

This book examines the evidential status and use of linguistic intuitions, a topic that has seen increased interest in recent years. Linguists use native speakers' intuitions - such as whether or not an utterance sounds acceptable - as evidence for theories about language, but this approach is not uncontroversial. The two parts of this volume draw on the most recent work in both philosophy and linguistics to explore the two major issues at the heart of the debate. Chapters in the first part address the 'justification question', critically analysing and evaluating the theoretical rationale for the evidential use of linguistic intuitions. The second part discusses recent developments in the domain of experimental syntax, focusing on the question of whether formal and systematic models of gathering intuitions are epistemically and methodologically superior to the informal methods that have traditionally been used. The volume provides valuable insights into whether and how linguistic intuitions can be used in theorizing about language, and will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.

Author : A. Chapman,A. Ellis,R. Hanna,T. Hildebrand,H. Pickford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137347954

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In Defense of Intuitions by A. Chapman,A. Ellis,R. Hanna,T. Hildebrand,H. Pickford Pdf

A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them.