Intellectual Seemings Are Methodologically Irrelevant
Date 21/09/2015

Time 4:30 – 6:30 pm

Venue

Room 220, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK


Speaker Prof. Max Deutsch
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong

Delivered in English

Abstract:
Some philosophical methodologists claim that intuitions are “intellectual seemings” and that conceiving them as such makes the view that intuitions are treated as evidence in philosophy more palatable. I will argue in this talk that there are no good reasons to believe in intellectual seemings, and that, even if they existed, they would be methodologically irrelevant.