Why Don’t Philosophers Do Their Intuition Practice? Article Swipe

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James Andow ·

YOU? · · 2018 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-018-0377-0

I bet you don’t practice your philosophical intuitions. What’s your excuse? If you think philosophical training improves the reliability of philosophical intuitions, then practicing intuitions should improve them even further. I argue that philosophers’ reluctance to practice their intuitions highlights a tension in the way that they think about the role of intuitions in philosophy.

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