Jonathan Ichikawa's Blog
Posted in Philosophy on Dec 1st, 2009
I’ve just written up an abstract for a paper I’m thinking about writing on the bearing of x-phi on the alleged apriority of philosophy. Short answer: there is none—even if the x-phi critics are right about the need for philosophers to be doing more science. I’ve posted it on the Arché Methodology Blog; I’d welcome [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2009
I’m a postdoctoral research fellow at the Arché Philosophical Research Centre at the University of St Andrews. I’m working on the AHRC-funded ‘Intuitions and Methodology‘ project.
My Ph.D. was at Rutgers University.
My research so far has fallen broadly into three areas of focus (with vague boundaries and overlap): (i) questions in epistemology about knowledge, ‘knows’, safety [...]
Posted in papers on Jun 19th, 2009
The Audacity of Hopeful Philosophical Appeals to Intuition, Version of 8 July, 2009. Under review.
According to some critics, traditional armchair philosophical methodology relies in an illicit way on intuitions. But the particular structure of the critique is not often carefully articulated—a significant omission, since some of the critics arguments for skepticism about philosophy threaten to [...]