Intuition: An Analysis

What are intuitions, and what role do they play in philosophy? Do they justify beliefs? And what are some skeptical challenges to intuition? I discuss these questions and more. Like the show? Help it grow! Consider becoming a patron (thanks!): https://www.patreon.com/majestyofreason If you wanna make a one-time donation or tip (thanks!): https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josephcschmid OUTLINE 0:00 Intro and outline 2:11 The nature of intuition 3:30 Intuitions as beliefs 7:52 Intuitions as dispositions to believe 11:48 Intuitions as sui generis states 17:02 Clarity is king 20:52 Epistemological role of intuition 21:10 Method of cases 25:24 General intuitions 27:29 Intuitions, evidence, and defeasibility 37:01 Criticisms and defenses of intuition 37:16 Constraints on skeptical challenges 46:48 Lack of independent calibration 52:00 Unreliability and disagreement 1:15:42 Explanation 1:22:58 Experimental philosophy and intuition 1:34:06 Conclusion 1:36:12 Bonus soccer NOTES (1) Here are some other (potential) examples of intuition-independent conflict that I didn't mention (at around 1:04:40): (a) quantum mechanical phenomena, like wave-particle duality, quantum entanglement, quantum superposition, and whatnot; (b) Curry's paradox and naive applications of Tarski's T-schema [this one might not be intuition-independent; presumably we reject certain applications of T-schema because of the unintuitive contradictions they engender]; (c) the Twin Paradox and length contraction in relativity theory; (d) various cases of the equinumerosity of cardinally infinite sets (including the Banach-Tarski paradox) [though, again, this might not be intuition-independent, since transfinite mathematics is also undergirded by certain intuitions]; and more. LINKS (1) Pust's SEP entry on intuition: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuition/index.html (2) "The phenomenology of intuition", Philosophy Compass: https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phc3.12387 THE USUAL... Follow the Majesty of Reason podcast! https://open.spotify.com/show/4Nda5uNcGselvKphtKSKvH Join the Discord and chat all things philosophy! https://dsc.gg/majestyofreason My recent Springer book: (a) https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs/dp/3031193148/ (b) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2 My website: https://josephschmid.com My PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/joseph-schmid