Intuition at Close Range

I thought some of you might be interested in the following post by Marc Moffet defending intuition-driven rationalism against the critique presented in WNS "Normativity and epistemic intuitions": http://rationalhunter.typepad.com/close_range/2007/09/intuitions-an-1.html. There is also an interesting discussion of intuition by John Bengson that might be worth a gander: http://rationalhunter.typepad.com/close_range/2007/09/intuitions-beli.html.

Some of you might remember one of my posts from some time back discussing some True-Temp data that I'd collected showing that only some of the vignettes (what we might call the non-paradigmatic cases) elicited the framing effect. Interestingly, my results also seemed to show that people have some epistemic access to whether or not their reports about the cases are reliable.

There is clearly more empirical research that needs to be done. Now seems like a good time to do it!

Comments

[jonathan weinberg]

Thanks for posting that link, Jen! I've put up an inordinately long response comment over there; I'd be curious to hear other x-philes take on things.