Abduction by Philosophers: Reorienting Philosophical Methodology
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Abduction by Philosophers : Reorienting Philosophical Methodology ∗
A reorientation is needed in methodological debate about the role of intuitions in philosophy. Methodological debate has lost sight of the reason why it makes sense to focus on questions about intuitions when thinking about the methods or epistemology of philosophy. The problem is an approach to methodology which gives a near exclusive focus to questions about some evidential role that intuitio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Metaphilosophy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0026-1068
DOI: 10.1111/meta.12191