A Defense of the Use of Intuitions in Philosophy

Stich: And His Critics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 101-112

  Sosa, Ernest ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Cognitive state' Stich's term for belief like information storing mental states while 'cognitive processes' includes our own reasoning processes; (AEA) Analytic Epistemology Argument; Defense of use of intuitions in Philosophy; Only believes; Use of intuitions in philosophy

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EID: 84890986316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308709.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

References (3)

1. It is a great pleasure for me to contribute to this well-deserved tribute to Steve Stich, long-time colleague and true friend, and iconoclast of analytic epistemology. Here I engage only one of the challenges in his stimulating and influential work.
2. In The Philosophy of Alvin Goldman, in a special issue of Philosophical Topics, ed. Christopher S. Hill, Hilary Kornblith, and Tom Senor, Vol. 29, Nos. 1 and 2; pp. 429-61. (Parenthetical page references in the main text will now be to this article.)
3. "Meta-skepticism: Meditations in Ethno-epistemology," in S. Luper (ed.), The Skeptics (Ashgate, 2003), with a different order of authors, now listed as Nichols, Stich, and Weinberg.