Intuitions :: Philosophy Judgement Papers

IntuitionsThis paper examines two attempts to guarantee the way in which intuitions to the highest degree unique(predicate) cases are used as evidence for and against philosophic theories. According to the opinion personate, intuitions about(predicate) cases are legitimate applications of ones typically tacit grasp of certain concepts. We lay out that regardless of whether externalist or internalist accounts of conceptual content are correct, the concept dumbfound flounders. The second justification rests on the less familiar belief model, which has it that intuitions in philosophy derive from ones (often tacit) beliefs. Although more promising than the concept model, the belief model fails to exempt traditional philosophical use of intuitions because it is not clear a priori that the beliefs at issue are true. The latter model may, however, legitimize a less a prioristic approach to intuitions. If anything unifies different philosophical methodologies its some sort of rel iance on intuitions. Its remarkable, therefore, how rarely we attempt to justify their employment in philosophy. The intuitions philosophers care about are typically judgements about whether specific (hypothetical or actual) cases are cases of a certain kind. Some philosophical topic such as reference, knowledge or personal individuality is under investigation. A theory is proposed and is then tested against our intuitions about specific cases that bear on the topic. In general, if our intuitions contradict what a theory implies about whether, say, S refers to x, or knows that p, or is identical to T, this counts against the theory. If on the other hand, our intuitions checker what a theory tells us about voxicular cases, this usually counts in favor of the theory.All procedures of this sort rest on a article of belief like I I Intuitions about specific cases can be used as evidence for and against philosophical theories. This paper is about whether I can be justified. We examin e two models, the Concepts form (CM) and the Belief Model (BM). In our view, neither of them provides a solid foundation for I as it is traditionally applied in philosophy. CMCM has four components1. A concept, C, determines what it takes for something to fall under that concept (what it takes for something to be a C).2. Someone who possesses or grasps a concept, C, doesnt always know explicitly what it takes to be a C because some (maybe most) concepts are understood by us in part tacitly.3. Intuitions about whether specific cases fall under C are reliably guided by, or generally match ones understanding, tacit or otherwise, of C.