Philosophies of Philosophy: Paul Boghossian & Herman Cappelen - "Philosophy without Intuitions"
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Paul Boghossian (Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU) & Herman Cappelen (Arché Professor of Philosophy and Director of Arché, University of St. Andrews) - "Philosophy without Intuitions"
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Paul Boghossian: philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/...
Herman Cappelen: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosoph...
Paul Boghossian (Ph.D., Princeton, 1987), is Silver Professor of Philosophy and the director of theNew York Institute of Philosophy. He was Chair of Philosophy from 1994-2004. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language and in epistemology. He is the author of numerous works on a variety of topics, including color, rule-following, eliminativism, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, relativism, the aesthetics of music and the concept of genocide. He has held research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Magdalen College (Oxford), the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and from the Australian National University (Canberra). He has been a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Fulbright Senior Specialist and is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. He has also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at Princeton.
Herman Cappelen
Since 2007 Cappelen has been a Professor at the University of St Andrews where he holds an Arché Chair. He has previously held positions at Somerville College, Oxford, University of Oslo, and Vassar College. He has been the Director of the Arché Philosophical Research Centre[1] and a co-investigator of two research projects funded by longterm AHRC grants: "Contextualism and Relativism" and "Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology". Cappelen was one of the original applicants for the research center Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (Norwegian Centre of Excellence) at the University of Oslo, where he is director of research and co-director of the Linguistic Agency component. Cappelen has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 2008.
Cappelen's most influential work is the 2004 book, Insensitive Semantics (written with Ernie Lepore). The book defends a minimal role for context in semantics and advocates speech act pluralism. It is one of the most cited works in philosophy within the last 10 years.
Cappelen has argued that the role of intuition in Western analytic philosophy is overstated. His 2012 book, Philosophy without Intuitions, controversially claims that intuition plays a minor role - or no role at all - in most modern philosophy.
Very good pair of talks, conflicting positions. thanks.
So insightful and enjoyed the debate. I think Paul Boghossian has a very strong argument
Automatic subtitle, please!
I'm an English language teacher in a country very foreign to English. When my learners make odd sentences, the sentences that cause that 'jarring effect' , can I say that they do not sound 'intuitively correct' to me? Can I say that I choose my words to create language intuitively? And so when I cannot say exactly where or why my senses were pricked by these seemingly incorrect examples, or why I cannot repair the sentences, i.e. turn them into more prototypical forms, what is not working right? Example - 'Because I was free, I went shopping by way of walking alone' Is 'intuition' a way to judge language?
There's a maddening rustling and clunking on the sound track, as Boghossian fidgets around. Need a better mic setup.
Paul, Tim = Good Philosophers. Jonathan = Younger philosopher with good potential because his metaphilosophy is right. Herman = rudebuoy who has hopped on the deluded, arrogant academic train, reveres Tim but whose overambitious attempts to revise metaphilosophy have stuck him into a corner within which he is unwilling to admit he is wrong. The PPE intellectual delusion of inflation has left its mark. He has overinvested himself; seek truth, not victory. That way you will be victorious regardless.
For what reason do you think that Herman's approach is so obviously false?
I held a chair just last week.
Hope I'm not being insensitive.
I feel like Cappelan was just too polite to call out philosophers for apealing to intuition, and instead showed how each case could be made without such an appleal.
Intuition! It does not take my Introverted Intuition to see a very real physical resemblance to the character, 'Data' of the
Enterprise.
Now, where is Jean Luc? He has my popcorn. I may be not woohoo voodoo psychic but I do speak Star Trek. Grok!
Footnote or footprint me and I will offer an explanation for our non-native speakers who may know get my pop culture Data.
Brent Jay Spiner (/ˈspaɪnər/; born February 2, 1949) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and singer best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films.