INTUITION OF REALITY

Measuring Intuition

The long-held popular notion of intuition has garnered much attention both academically and popularly. Although most people agree that there is such a phenomenon as intuition, involving emotionally charged, rapid, unconscious processes, little compelling evidence supports this notion. Here, we introduce a technique in which subliminal emotional information is presented to subjects while they ma...

Moral Intuition

Suppose we wish to understand a particular moral problem – for example, abortion. One way of proceeding is to reason on the basis of our existing substantive moral beliefs. We may, however, suspect that our moral beliefs about abortion, insofar as we have any prior to serious reflection, are unreliable. We may suspect, for example, that our beliefs about abortion reflect the influence of a reli...

The Faculty of Intuition

The present paper is a defense of the view that there is a faculty of rational intuition that delivers prima facie justified beliefs about philosophical propositions. I have no high-church analysis of the concept of faculty, and only employ the word in the following innocuous sense. If anything is a faculty, then sense perception is. If intuition is sufficiently similar to perception, then it t...

Intuition and the Axiomatic Method Intuition and the Axiomatic Method

Interpersonal intuition 1 Running head: Interpersonal intuition Friend or Foe? The Role of Intuition in Interpersonal Trustworthiness and Vulnerability Assessments

The basic discrimination of friend and foe was likely one of the earliest interpersonal judgments to evolve (e.g., O’Sullivan, 2003). Such decisions had to occur rapidly, perhaps intuitively, to inform the best course of action for survival. Intuitive interpersonal decisions appear to be based largely on the face, which acts as the display board on which emotions and intentions are communicated...