Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Posted in Philosophy on Apr 9th, 2011
Suppose somebody has a false intuition about an a priori matter. Is she justified in believing its content? Many plausible answers, of course, will begin with “it depends…”. On what does it depend? Ernie Sosa thinks that among the things upon which it depends is whether the false intuition derives from “some avoidably defective way”; such [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Mar 30th, 2011
I’m thinking about a point that Ernie Sosa has made in response to survey-based experimental philosophy challenges. As we all know, some critics have argued that certain experimental results challenge traditional armchair philosophy. In particular, for example, Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich found that there seemed to be a systematic divergence of epistemic intuitions depending upon [...]
Posted in papers on Jun 20th, 2009
Sosa on Virtues, Perception, and Intuition. Version of 19 January, 2009. I critically evaluate Ernest Sosa’s (2007) contrast between intuitive justification and perceptual justification. I defend a competence-based approach to intuitive justification that is continuous with epistemic justification generally.