Readings

Philosophy 427: Intuitions and Philosophy

Hamilton College, Fall 2009

Readings

This page includes links to all readings on the syllabus that are not found in either the DePaul and Ramsey or in the Knobe and Nichols volumes, as well as some other papers that may be interesting or useful to you in writing your papers.

Adams and Steadman, "Intentional action in ordinary language: core concept or pragmatic understanding?"

Adams and Steadman, "Intentional action and moral considerations: still pragmatic"

Bates, "Reflective equilibrium and underdetermination in epistemology"

Bates, "The Old Problem of Induction and the New Reflective Equilibrium"

Bealer, "On the Possibility of Philosophical Knowledge"

Bishop, "Why Thought Experiments are Not Arguments"

Cappelen and Winbland, "Intuitions"

Cohen, "Can Human Rationality Be Experimentally Demonstrated?"

Cohen, "Reply to Stein"

Cummins, "Evidence for the Innateness of Deontic Reasoning"

Daniels, "Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Theory Acceptance in Ethics"

Descartes, from Meditations on First Philosophy and Objections and Replies"

Devitt, "Experimental Semantics"

Dretske, "Epistemic Operators"

Foot, "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect"

Frankfurt, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility"

Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"

Hempel, "Laws and Their Role in Scientific Explanation"

Hintikka, "The Emperor's New Intutions"

Hume, from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Jackman, "Intuitions and Semantic Theory"

Jackson, "Epiphenomenal Qualia"

Kahneman and Tversky, "Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk"

Katz, "The Problem in Twentieth-Century Philosophy"

Knobe, "Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language"

Knobe, "Intentional action in folk psychology: an experimental investigation"

Knobe, "Intention, intentional action and moral considerations"

Lam, "Are Cantonese Speakers Really Descriptivists? Revisiting Cross-Cultural Semantics"

Liao, "A Defense of Intuitions"

Locke, "Clear and Distinct Perception"

Mallon, Machery, Nichols, and Stich, "Against Arguments from Reference"

Melchert, "Analysis" (On Wittgenstein and the Tractatus)

Nadelhoffer, "On Trying to Save the Simple View"

Nagel, "Epistemic Intuitions"

Orlando, "Some Critical Remarks on an Explanation of Concept Possession"

Parsons, "Platonism and Mathematical Intuition in Kurt Gödel's Thought"

Putnam, "Meaning and Reference"

Quinn, "Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing"

Rawls, "Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics"

Rawls, "The Independence of Moral Theory"

Sosa, "A Defense of the Use of Intuitions in Philosophy"

Stein, "Rationality and Reflective Equilibrium"

Stein, "Reply to Cohen"

Stich and Nisbett, "Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning"

Tversky and Kahneman, "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases"

Tversky, Slovic, and Kahneman, "The Causes of Preference Reversal"