Intuitions and Illusions: From Explanation and Experiment to Assessment

Eugen Fischer; Paul Engelhardt; Aurelie Herbelot

Intuitions and Illusions: From Explanation and Experiment to Assessment

Eugen Fischer, Paul Engelhardt, Aurelie Herbelot

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Abstract

This chapter presents and develops an interdisciplinary research programme currently emerging from experimental philosophy: The ‘sources project’ seeks to develop psychological explanations of philosophical intuitions that facilitate their epistemological assessment. This chapter develops such an explanation: It explains intuitions at the root of notorious paradoxes about perception (‘arguments from illusion’), reports an experiment supporting this explanation, and suggests how we can advance from this psychological explanation of intuitions to assessments of their evidentiary value. To explain the targeted intuitions, the paper draws on discourse process research from cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. To test the explanation, it employs an experimental paradigm from psycholinguistics. To derive assessments, it builds on research on metacognitive cues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism and Naturalism
Subtitle of host publication	Rethinking Philosophical Method
Editors	Eugen Fischer, John Collins
Publisher	Routledge
ISBN (Print)	978-1-13-888728-2
Publication status	Published - May 2015

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Intuitions and Illusions : From Explanation and Experiment to Assessment. / Fischer, Eugen ; Engelhardt, Paul; Herbelot, Aurelie.

Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism and Naturalism : Rethinking Philosophical Method. ed. / Eugen Fischer; John Collins. Routledge, 2015.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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