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What are intuitions? Should we ever trust them? And if so, when? Do they have an indispensable role in science, e.g. in thought experiments, as well as in philosophy? Or should appeal to intuitions be abandoned altogether? This book brings together leading early- to late-career philosophers, to tackle such questions. It presents state-of-the-art thinking on the topic. The chapters in the first part of the book discuss the epistemological and metaphysical standing of intuitions; the chapters in the second part look at how intuitions are used in disciplines besides philosophy, and in sub-discipl ... More
Keywords: metaphilosophy, methodology, intuitions, science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, experimental philosophy
Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199609192 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2014 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199609192.001.0001 |
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