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Philosophical Intuitions
What exactly is a philosophical intuition? And what makes such an intuition reliable, when it is reliable? is paper provides a terminological framework that is able answer to the rst question, and then puts the framework to work developing an answer to the second question. More specically, the paper argues that we can distinguish between two dierent “evidential roles” which intuitions can oc...
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Intuitions play a critical role in analytical philosophical activity. But do they qualify as genuine evidence for the sorts of conclusions philosophers seek? Skeptical arguments against intuitions are reviewed, and a variety of ways of trying to legitimate them are considered. A defense is off ered of their evidential status by showing how their evidential status can be embedded in a naturalist...
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The movement of experimental philosophy criticizes traditional philosophy’s armchair reliance on intuition. The critique is rarely spelled out precisely; rather, experimental philosophers simply point to the admittedly surprising results of intuition surveys, which are, roughly, that intuitions vary with factors presumed to be irrelevant to the subject matter in question. However, the question ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studia Philosophica Estonica
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1736-5899,2228-110X
DOI: 10.12697/spe.2009.2.2.04