http://www.smatthewliao.com Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:43:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.smatthewliao.com/2008/05/02/a-defense-of-intuitions/ http://www.smatthewliao.com/2008/05/02/a-defense-of-intuitions/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 03:38:39 +0000 S. Matthew Liao http://www.smatthewliao.com/2008/05/02/a-defense-of-intuitions/ Radical experimentalists argue that we should give up using intuitions as evidence in philosophy. In this paper, I first argue that the studies presented by the radical experimentalists in fact suggest that some intuitions are reliable. I next consider and reject a different way of handling the radical experimentalists’ challenge, what I call the Argument from Robust Intuitions. I then propose a way of understanding why some intuitions can be unreliable and how intuitions can conflict, and I argue that on this understanding, both moderate experimentalism and the standard philosophical practice of using intuitions as evidence can help resolve these conflicts. [Philosophical Studies 140(2) 2008: 247-262] [pdf | html]

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