Rethinking Intuition: The Psychology of Intuition and Its Role in Philosophical Inquiry

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Michael Raymond DePaul, William M. Ramsey
Rowman & Littlefield, 1998 - Всего страниц: 335
Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driven philosophical inquiry. Rethinking Intuition brings together a distinguished group of philosophers and psychologists to discuss these important issues. Students and scholars in both fields will find this book to be of great value.
 

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Rethinking Intuition A Historical and Metaphilosophical Introduction
1
Psychological Research on Intuitive Judgments
13
Family Resemblances Studies in the Internal Structure of Categories
15
The Psychology of Intuition
43
Philosophical Intuitions and Cognitive Mechanisms
57
Whose Concepts Are They Anyway? The Role of Philosophical Intuition in Empirical Psychology
73
Rethinking Intuition and Philosophical Method
91
Reflective Equilibrium Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity
93
Philosophical Theory and Intuitional Evidence
177
Defending the Philosophical Tradition
197
Intuition and the Autonomy of Philosophy
199
Rationality and Intellectual SelfTrust
239
Minimal Intuition
255
Southern Fundamentalism and the End of Philosophy
269
Why Bother with Reflective Equilibrium?
291
Reference List
309

Reflection on Reflective Equilibrium
111
The Role of Intuition in Philosophical Inquiry An Account with No Unnatural Ingredients
127
Philosophical Intuitions and Psychological Theory
141
Prototypes and Conceptual Analysis
159

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William Ramsay, a British physicist and chemist, was the son of an engineer and the nephew of geology professors. He was probably most well known for his work in chemistry, although he made significant contributions to nuclear physics. In 1904 Ramsay received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his demonstration that helium is continually produced during the radioactive decay of radium. This research and its subsequent explanation by Ernest Rutherford laid the foundation for the emerging discipline of nuclear physics. After completing his education at Glasgow University in chemistry, and receiving his Ph.D. in 1872 from the University of Tubingen, Ramsay taught at University College in Bristol until 1880 and then at University College in London until his retirement in 1912. His research studies of helium led Ramsay to search for new gases on the periodic table. With the help of Morris Travers, Ramsay discovered the elements neon, krypton, and xenon. In 1904 Ramsay discovered radon.

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