Herman Cappelen
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first heard Jan 2013
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So I don't think there is anything for the movement to do, I think.
Going around checking on people's intuitions has nothing to do with what philosophers do because philosophers don't rely on intuitions.
So now you might think, and there are many attempts when I say this, experimental philosophers say to me, well, you know, we can rephrase the whole project in ways that depends much less or maybe not at all on the assumption that intuitions are at the center of philosophy.
I still haven't seen that done in any way that is even remotely plausible.
I mean, just I think it's when you encounter these attempts to reinterpret that tradition, it is worth going back looking at what they really wrote.
I mean, you know, this sounds maybe hostile what I'm saying.
to X-Fi, but I think it's worth remembering that Stitch and the original experimental philosophers were extremely hostile to contemporary philosophy.
I mean, their goal, Stitch's goal, in many writings and in public.
The front page of the New York Times is analytic philosophy is dead.
We can't keep doing philosophy the way we've been doing.
So they were incredibly negative, incredibly critical of the kind of work that we are doing.
Go back and look at those criticisms, and you will find over and over again that they are inextricably linked to the assumption that philosophy is intuition-based.
If you take away that assumption, the criticisms simply fall apart.
Now, I think, you know, here's the kind of...
thing you could try, he could say, Yeah, but look, it's don't you want philosophers to check whether they have biases, you know, what if it turns out that we're all biased, because we are, you know, we have certain features, and people with those features tend to make judgments of a certain kind?
Isn't it nice to have a group of people who keeps us honest in that way?
So, you know, that that would be one strategy to say, what they're really doing is trying to discover
maybe heuristics and biases in philosophy and you know put in that kind of terms those terms that sounds nice who wouldn't want to have some people checking on whether we're biased but that just isn't a reasonable description of what anyone in that movement has even begun to do because
I think there are ways, there are, of course, there are very interesting questions about the biases of philosophers.
Like, are we, what kind of gender bias?
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