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Higgins, Andrew A.

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The nature of intuitions and their role in material object metaphysics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The nature of intuitions and their role in material object metaphysics./
Author:	Higgins, Andrew A.
Description:	245 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-11A(E).
Subject:	Metaphysics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3710874
ISBN:	9781321868890

The nature of intuitions and their role in material object metaphysics.
Higgins, Andrew A.

The nature of intuitions and their role in material object metaphysics. - 245 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.

I argue for three central theses: 'intuition' is ambiguous, in material object metaphysics 'intuition' refers to pre-theoretical beliefs, and these pre-theoretical beliefs are generated by an innate physical reasoning system. I begin by outlining the relevant background discussions on the nature of intuitions and their role in philosophy to motivate the need for a more careful investigation of the meaning of 'intuition' and the role of intuitions in specific sub-disciplines of philosophy. In chapters one and two I argue that 'intuition' is ambiguous between an inflationary and deflationary sense. In the inflationary sense, 'intuition' refers to a priori intellectual seemings with a special phenomenology, conceptual etiology, and modal content. In the deflationary sense, 'intuition' refers to beliefs or inclinations to believe. In chapter three I specifically examine the use of intuitions in material object metaphysics and conclude that in this sub-community 'intuition' is used in the deflationary sense to refer to pre-theoretical beliefs. Drawing from research on infant cognition, in the final chapter I argue that intuitions regarding material object metaphysics are those judgments that arise from an innate physical reasoning system. Based on this empirical observation, I argue that metaphysicians ought to give preference to abstract intuitions over intuitions regarding concrete cases because these abstract intuitions reflect the innate structure of our physical reasoning mechanisms.

ISBN: 9781321868890Subjects--Topical Terms:

517082
Metaphysics.

The nature of intuitions and their role in material object metaphysics.
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