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The Reliability Challenge to Moral Intuitions
In recent years, the epistemic reliability of moral intuitions has been undermined by substantial empirical data reporting the influence of cognitive...
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In defense of teleological intuitions
According to recent work in experimental philosophy, folk intuitions concerning various metaphysical issues are heavily teleological. The experiments...
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Why Your Causal Intuitions are Corrupt: Intermediate and Enabling Variables
When evaluating theories of causation, intuitions should not play a decisive role, not even intuitions in flawlessly-designed thought experiments....
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The Epistemic Status of Intuitions
The main goal of this chapter is to assess the various positions and arguments that epistemologists have given for and against the epistemic status...
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Russellian Physicalism, Phenomenal Concepts, and Revelation
This paper responds to an argument from Botin which claims that Russellian physicalism is committed to the view that either (i) our phenomenal...
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Reference the untouchable. On the limits of revising concepts using the method of cases
The paper investigates to what extent the method of cases can be interpreted as either a descriptive or a normative enterprise. I demonstrate that...
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Aza A. Takho-Godi’s contribution to the history of ideas and concepts
The investigations of Aza A. Takho-Godi, devoted to the evolution of concepts and terms in European culture, were ahead of their time and, as it...
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X-Phi and the challenge from ad hoc concepts
Ad hoc concepts feature prominently in lexical pragmatics. A speaker can use a word or phrase to communicate an ad hoc concept that is different from...
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Intuitions About Free Will and the Failure to Comprehend Determinism
Theories of free will are often measured against how well they capture everyday intuitions about free will. But what are these everyday intuitions,...
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Intuitions, theory choice and the ameliorative character of logical theories
Anti-exceptionalists about logic claim that logical methodology is not different from scientific methodology when it comes to theory choice. Two...
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Trope analysis and folk intuitions
This paper outlines a new method for identifying folk intuitions to complement armchair intuiting and experimental philosophy (X-Phi), and thereby...
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Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication
This article takes a cognitive approach to natural concepts. The aim is to introduce criteria that are evaluated with respect to how they support the...
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Russellian Physicalists get our phenomenal concepts wrong
Russellian physicalism is becoming increasingly popular because it promises to deliver what everybody wants, realism and physicalism about...
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Mathematical Concepts and Thoughts
This chapter will extend the model developed in Chaps. 3 and 4 to model...
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Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease
If one had to identify the biggest change within the philosophical tradition in the twenty-first century, it would certainly be the rapid rise of...
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Intuitions in the Ontology of Musical Works
An impressive variety of theories of ontology of musical works has been offered in the last fifty years. Recently, the ontologists have been paying...
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Intuitions on Semantic Reference
Since Machery et al. Cognition 92, B1-B12 (
2004 ) attacked Kripke’s refutation of classical descriptivism, their experiment has been repeated several...
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Reliance on Intuitions
How should we discover the truth about language? The received view among Linguistic Pragmatists, indeed among philosophers of language generally, is...
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Implicit Metaethical Intuitions: Validating and Employing a New IAT Procedure
Philosophical arguments often assume that the folk tends towards moral objectivism. Although recent psychological studies have indicated that lay...
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The Normative Implications of Recent Empirical Neuroethics Research on Moral Intuitions
Empirical neuroethics models have always had normative ambitions. Older models (e.g., dual process) attempted to debunk traditional moral theories,...