<i>Pratibh?</i>, intuition, and practical knowledge

Moral Intuition, Moral Theory, and Practical Ethics

Juggling law, ethics, and intuition: practical answers to awkward questions.

The eclectic problem solving methodology used by the British Medical Association (BMA) is described in this paper. It has grown from the daily need to respond to doctors' practical queries and incorporates reference to law, traditional professional codes, and established BMA policies-all of which must be regularly assessed against the benchmark of contemporary societal expectations. The two Jeh...

Intuition and the emergence of midwifery as authoritative knowledge.

Intuition and the Emergence of Midwifery as Authoritative Knowledge ne of my first teachers in midwifery was a wonderful family doctor who told me that it was vital to pay attention to what mothers had to say about their babies. My doctor friend had not learned in medical school to place such value on mothers' intuitions; he had learned this from his mentor, an older physician whose practice he...

Practical Knowledge and Abilities

The thesis is an exploration of the relations between know-how, abilities, and ordinary knowledge of facts. It is shown that there is a distinctively practical sort of know-how and a corresponding interpretation of 'S knows how to 0', and that this special sort of know-how, while possessing representational content, is not simply ordinary knowledge-that. The view rests on a novel distinction be...

Evidence-based and intuition-based self-knowledge: an FMRI study.

Behavioral and neuropsychological studies have suggested multiple self-knowledge systems may exist (i.e., evidence-based and intuition-based self-knowledge); however, little is known about the nature of intuition-based self-knowledge. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study, the neural correlates of intuition-based and evidence-based self-knowledge were investigated. Participants with ...