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Title: | The Mother-in-Law of Philosophy: Intuition & Experimental Restrictionism Ian Matthew Wright, B.A. |
Authors: | Wright, Mattew Ian |
Advisor: | Garrett, Brian J. |
Department: | Philosophy |
Keywords: | Philosophy;Philosophy |
Publication Date: | Sep-2009 |
Abstract: | <p>This project is a response to recent criticisms against the use of intuitions in analytic philosophy, raised by adherents of experimental restrictionism. I begin by discussing and eventually rejecting the restrictionist characterization of analytic philosophy, which I take to be inaccurate and unfair. I examine several accounts of the nature of intuitions in the history of philosophy, in contemporary discourse and as they are understood by restrictionism. I reject these accounts in favour of a more modest characterization of intuitions. I conclude with an overview of the restrictionist methodology. After considering some of its past criticisms, I offer my own critique based on the restrictionists' false presupposition that intuition is a natural kind.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9477 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/4598 5616 2049795 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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