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Posted in papers, publications on Jun 20th, 2009
Explaining Away Intuitions, Forthcoming in Studia Philosophica Estonica, special issue on intuitions.
What is it to ‘explain away’ an intuition? Philosophers often attempt to explain intuitions away, but it is often unclear what the success conditions for their project consist in. I attempt to articulate these conditions, using several philosophical case studies as guides. I will [...]
Posted in papers on Jun 20th, 2009
Intuitions and Begging the Question. Under Review. Version of 4 July, 2009.
What are philosophical intuitions? There is a tension between two intuitive criteria. On the one hand, many of our ordinary beliefs do not seem intuitively to be intuitions; this suggests a relatively restrictionist approach to intuitions. (A few attempts to restrict: intuitions must be [...]
Posted in papers on Jun 20th, 2009
Who Needs Intuitions? Version of 7 September, 2008. Under review.
“Intuitions play critical evidential roles in philosophy.” This statement has air of truism about it; it is widely assumed, and occasionally explicitly argued, to be correct. It forms the basis of an influential series of challenges to traditional philosophical methodology; among these are a reliability challenge—’how [...]