Intuition as Philosophical Evidence

PAILOS, FEDERICO MATÍAS

ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY

Pacific University Oregon

Lugar: Foster Grove, Oregon; Año: 2012 vol. 13 p. 294 - 309

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Earlenbaugh and Molyneux´s argument against considering intuitions as evidence has an uncharitable consequence: a substantial part of philosophical practice is not justified. A possible solution to this problem is to defend that philosophy must be descriptive metaphysics. But if this statement is  rejected, one can only argue (a) that experts´ intuition does constitute evidence, and (b) that philosophical practice is justified by the overall growth of philosophical knowledge it generates. (Table of contents: http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol13/iss1/)