Intuitions

Intuitions

by Booth, Anthony Robert Rowbottom, Darrell P.

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Intuitions may seem to play a fundamental role in philosophy: but their role and their value have been challenged recently. What are intuitions? Should we ever trust them? And if so, when? Do they have an indispensable role in science--in thought experiments, for instance--as well as in philosophy? Or should appeal to intuitions be abandoned altogether? This collection brings together leading philosophers, from early to late career, to tackle such questions. It presents the state of the art thi…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Intuitions / edited by Anthony Robert Booth and Darrell P. Rowbottom.

Summary

Intuitions may seem to play a fundamental role in philosophy: but their role and their value have been challenged recently. What are intuitions? Should we ever trust them? And if so, when? Do they have an indispensable role in science--in thought experiments, for instance--as well as in philosophy? Or should appeal to intuitions be abandoned altogether? This collection brings together leading philosophers, from early to late career, to tackle such questions. It presents the state of the art thinking on the topic.--Provided by publisher

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
  • Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 289 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199609192, 0199609195
  • oclc:ocn887105776
  • LC Classification:BD181
  • Dewey Decimal:153.44

Table of Contents

The Rational Roles of Intuition / Elijah Chudnoff -- Intuitions: Their Nature and Probative Value / Ernest Sosa -- Empirical Evidence for Rationalism? / Joel Pust -- Moderate Intuitionism: A Metasemantic Account / Michael Johnson and Jennifer Nado -- Intuition, 'Intuition', Concepts and the A Priori / C.S.I. Jenkins -- Intuitions in Science: Thought Experiments as Argument Pumps / Darrell P. Rowbottom -- Novice Thought Experiments / Roy Sorensen -- Moral Intuitionism, Experiments, and Skeptical Arguments / Mark van Roojen -- Linguistic Intuitions in Context: A Defense of Non-Skeptical Pure Invariantism / John Turri -- The Challenge of Sticking with Intuitions through Thick and Thin / Jonathan M. Weinberg and Joshua Alexander -- Sceptical Intuitions / Duncan Pritchard -- Who Needs Intuitions? Two Experimentalist Critiques / Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa -- Grasp of Essences versus Intuitions: An Unequal Contest / E.J. Lowe -- X-Phi without Intuitions? / Herman Cappelen

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