Abstract
Today, experimental philosophers challenge traditional appeals to intuition; they empirically collect folk intuitions and then use their findings to attack philosophers’ intuitions. However this movement is not uniform. Radical experimentalists criticize the use of intuitions in philosophy altogether and they have been mostly attacked. Contrariwise, moderate experimentalists imply that lay persons’ intuitions are somehow relevant to philosophical problems. Sometimes they even use folk intuitions in order to advance theoretical theses. In this paper I will try to challenge the so-called moderate experimental attempts to rely on intuition in order to promote philosophical theses.
Highlights
Philosophers have often appealed to their own intuitions and used them to reflect on philosophical problems
Philosophical intuitions do not represent the pre-theoretical intuitions of the community
It is far from clear that commonsensical intuitions are the source of philosophical problems
Summary
SUMMARY: Today, experimental philosophers challenge traditional appeals to intuition; they empirically collect folk intuitions and use their findings to attack philosophers’ intuitions. Contrariwise, moderate experimentalists imply that laypersons’ intuitions are somehow relevant to philosophical problems. Sometimes they even use folk intuitions in order to advance theoretical theses. A diferencia de ellos, los experimentalistas moderados sugieren que las intuiciones del vulgo son de alguna manera pertinentes en los problemas filosóficos. En este trabajo pretendo poner en duda los intentos de los llamados experimentalistas moderados de apelar a intuiciones para promover tesis filosóficas.
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