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Bergson’s Fundamental Intuition
The following text is a translation of Semyon Frank’s “L’intuition fondamentale de Bergson” published in Henri Bergson: Essais et témoignages inédits ,...
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Intuition
In the chapter on intuition, I work with the Logical Investigations, Dieter Lohmar, Rudolph Bernet, Jakko Hintikka, and others. The investigation...
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The Different Senses of the Word Intuition
This is a translation from Bulgarian into English of Nikolai Lossky’s “Razlichniiat smisul na dumata intuitsiia” (“The Different Senses of the Word...
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Analysis and Intuition Effectiveness in Moral Problems
There has been a longstanding controversy in research as to whether moral judgment is the result of an analytical or an intuitive process. Today,...
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The Nature of Epistemic Intuition
In the last chapter, we saw that epistemic intuition is an essential constituent of epistemic thought experiments. The question then arises: what is...
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Intellectual Intuition
KantKant argued that the capacity to distinguish between sensibility and understanding requires an act of transcendental reflection, which, despite...
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Intuition in Mathematics: from Racism to Pluralism
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many mathematicians referred to intuition as the indispensable research tool for obtaining new results. In...
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Acting Intuition
This essay analyzes the significance of Nishida’s concept of “acting intuition.” The author explains how acting intuition brings Nishida’s notion of...
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The Phenomenology of Moral Intuition
Moral judgment commonly depends on intuition. It is also true, though less widely agreed, that ethical theory depends on it. The nature and epistemic...
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Epistemic Thought Experiment and Intuition
This first chapter aims to start putting the subject matter, the nature and epistemic status of intuitions, into perspective. Intuition forms a...
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Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy
Can empathy be a tool for obtaining scientific knowledge or is it incompatible with the detached objectivity that is often seen as the ideal in...
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Intuition about Justice: Desertist or Luck Egalitarian?
There is a large and growing body of empirical work on people’s intuitions about distributive justice. In this paper, we investigate how well luck...
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Intuition, Renaissance Idea of
From Nicholas of Cusa to Spinoza, intuition is regarded as a form of superior knowledge or direct insight, whose peculiar object of understanding is...
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Evolutionary Epistemology: Moritz Schlick’s Critique of Intuition
This chapter opens by comparing Bergson’s and Schlick’s biological epistemologies. Both philosophers agree with Spencer, Mach, and the Pragmatists in...
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From Reason-Based Decision-Making to Intuition-Based Management
For centuries we have relied on reason, mathematical models and projections, empirical recommendations, and the guidance of “experts” to make safe...
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Spatial Time: The Unity of Two Kantian Forms of Intuition
The First Critique’s “Transcendental Aesthetic,” discussing the contribution of sensuous cognition to our knowledge, apparently distinguishes and...
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Erotetic Intuition: Toward a Logic of Questions, and Beyond
This chapter examines various theories concerning questions. It turns out that both questions and answers are to some degree semantically...
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From the Critique of Intuition to Overcoming Metaphysics: Schlick’s Dialogue with Carnap
Schlick’s 1926 paper ‘Experience, Cognition, Metaphysics’ develops a broad criticism of the relation between intuition and metaphysics. There is here...
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Why and When is Pure Moral Motivation Defective
Agents sometimes have a final, de dicto desire to do what is right. They desire to do what is right for its own sake and under this description....
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Purifying applied mathematics and applying pure mathematics: how a late Wittgensteinian perspective sheds light onto the dichotomy
In this work we argue that there is no strong demarcation between pure and applied mathematics. We show this first by stressing non-deductive...
