Herman Cappelen
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first heard Jan 2013
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But that doesn't
There's a big step towards saying that that is an intuition in the significant philosophical sense.
Either it comes with a special phenomenology, it relies only on conceptual competence, it has a special epistemic status.
None of those things need be true.
It could just be that, hey, I wrote a paper, I assume P, oh, I'll write a next paper, we'll be defending P. So one way I do, you can explore whether a claim in a particular article
it's just of the kind that I described, just something that is open for further exploration in future work, is to see whether the literature treats it in that way.
So I think what you will find, for example, in the Twin Earth literature is, well, I think you'll find even in Putnam, extensive discussion of all these things, but let's just suppose that Putnam never argued for what he said about Twin Earth.
There's now...
I don't know how many thousand papers written about this, and what you will find in the larger philosophical debate, this extensive discussion of every possible alteration of alternative descriptions of those cases, and then defenses, arguments for and against.
That, I think, doesn't prove that there is no intuition there, but it still, it throws so doubt on it, and it
places, I think, the burden of proof, at least, on proponents of the intuition-driven picture of philosophy, where these judgments have these distinctive characteristics of the intuitive.
Well, yeah, I mean, I think all those things you just said about philosophy is true.
I think philosophy is distinctive in many ways, and one of maybe the most important ways that we question assumptions that no one else questions, and we will bring out of the common ground, make it explicit assumptions that other people just take for granted.
That's one of the reasons it's so
wonderful to do philosophy, is that we allow ourselves to do that.
And that there's really nothing that we can't question.
But that practice is almost the opposite of what's being described by the proponents of the view that philosophy is intuition-driven.
I mean, what you're describing is the attempt to make what others take to be implicit, what others take to have in the common ground, we make it explicit, and then we argue about it.
So that
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