NDLI: Why so negative? Evidence aggregation and armchair philosophy

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Talbot, Brian
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This paper aims to clarify a debate on philosophical method, and to give a probabilistic argument vindicating armchair philosophy under a wide range of plausible assumptions. The use of intuitions by so-called armchair philosophers has been criticized on empirical grounds. The debate between armchair philosophers and their empirical critics would benefit from greater clarity and precision in our understanding of what it takes for intuition-based approaches to philosophy to make sense. This paper discusses a set of rigorous, probability-based tools for determining what we can and cannot learn from intuitions in various conditions. These tools can tell us whether beliefs can be justified by armchair practices, and what empirical findings would have to show to undermine the use of intuitions in philosophy. Using these tools, the paper shows that armchair philosophy makes sense in a broad range of situations, and that it is quite plausible that we are in those situations at the moment.
Starting Page	3865
Ending Page	3896
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	191
Issue Number	16
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-07-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Intuitions Methodology Experimental philosophy Evidence aggregation Bayes’ theorem Eyewitness Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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