Herman Cappelen
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first heard Jan 2013
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And that is, you know, that it's not that that's incompatible, complete, you know, rules out the intuition driven picture, but it throws strong doubt on it.
Because now what you've done is you've take, take very radical claims, like the church lens, believing there are no beliefs, not something that is questioned by most anyone else.
And what we now have is not a set of intuitions or primitive, immediate judgments.
We have complicated chains of reasoning, theorizing, evidence from all kinds of sources being brought to bear on the question of whether there are beliefs or not.
That doesn't fit very well, or maybe not at all.
with the picture of these judgments being intuition-driven.
So I think what you were describing is, yes, that is a good picture of a very important feature of philosophical practice, but it isn't one that sits well with the assumption that at the foundation of everything we do, there are these special kinds of judgments called intuitions and that they drive everything we're doing.
In fact, I think what you're describing is a good way of thinking of getting to a point where you realize that's false.
Okay, well, just a little bit of background.
So I think one not unreasonable pressure towards the view that philosophy is intuition driven, or one reason for thinking that we analytic philosophers rely on intuitions is that we use those words so much.
So that, I think, is sort of the most immediate surface-level kind of reason to be driven towards what I take to be a wrong picture of what we're doing.
You pick up a more or less arbitrary journal today, and you'll find people saying intuitively blah, blah, blah, intuitively this, intuitively that, all over the place.
And you might think, well, hey, look, how can you say philosophy is not intuition-driven?
They use these words all the time.
And so for someone like me, his philosophy is not intuition driven.
It's an interesting project to try to figure out what we're doing when we say things like that.
So that's the topic of the first part of the book.
And again, I think it's very helpful to look in somewhat careful detail
particular texts and contexts in which those expressions are used and look at both the noun, the adverb, the adjective, the verb, and they all have slightly different features.
Very roughly the conclusion I come to, I mean it's complicated because I think there are many different interpretations, but maybe the easiest way to think about it is I see that kind of usage as not referring to or
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