| 'Intuitive' Judgments |
| Jonathan Ichikawa |
| Area 1 Epistemology |
| None |
| Keywords intuition intuitions methodology pragmatics |
| http://philosophy.jollyutter.net/papers/ij.pdf |
| 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 noninferential, or have modal force, or abstract contents.) On the other hand, it is counterintuitive to deny a great many of our beliefs—including some that are inferential, transparently contingent, and about concrete things. This suggests a liberal conception of intuitions. I defend the liberal view from the objection that it faces intuitive counterexamples; central to the defense is a treatment of the pragmatics of ‘intuition’ language. |
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