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High Standard Epistemology and the Appeal to Intuition

(Original title: High Standard Epistemology and the Appeal to Intuition)
Filozofia, 64 (2009), 7, 680-692.
Type of work: Pohľad za hranice
Publication language: English
Abstract

In the analytic tradition, the appeal to intuition has been a common philosophical practice that supposedly provides us with epistemic standards. I will argue that the high epistemological standards of traditional analytic philosophy cannot be pursued by this method. Perhaps within a naturalistic, reliabilistic frame intuitions can be evoked more coherently. Philosophers can use intuition as scientists do, in hypothesis- construction or data- collection. This is an ironic conclusion: Traditional analytic epistemologists rely on the appeal to intuition, but cannot justify it. Naturalists, on the other hand, are not that needy of such a method; yet they can better accommodate it within their view.

Keywords

Intuition, Epistemology, Conceptual analysis, Experimental philosophy, Naturalism

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