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Intuition as Conscious Experience (Hardcover)
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Intuition as Conscious Experience (Hardcover)
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Is torturing the innocent OK? Just now something happened: it
seemed to you that torturing the innocent is wrong. What kind of
mental state were you in? What is its nature? Perhaps you now
believe that torturing the innocent is wrong because it just seemed
to you that it is. If so, that seems appropriate. But is it really,
and if so, what could explain this? In this book, Koksvik argues
these mental states form a psychological kind called 'intuition',
and that having an intuition indeed justifies you in believing what
it says. What explains this, he argues, is how similar intuition is
to perception. Through a detailed examination he shows that
intuition, just like perception, is a conscious experience, and
that the two experience types have important properties in common,
in virtue of which they can both justify belief. In sharp contrast
to traditional thought, Koksvik argues that intuition is completely
unrestricted in content: we have intuitions about morality and
metaphysics, but also about all sorts of everyday things, like
danger or trustworthiness, and in all cases they can justify. The
use of intuition is thus not only a legitimate part of
philosophical and scientific practice, it also plays a pervasive,
important and legitimate role in all of our everyday rational
lives.
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