When do intuitions need to be reliable?

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Here’s an important way people might often talk past each other when discussing the role of intuitions in philosophy.

Here’s an important way people might often talk past each other when discussing the role of intuitions in philosophy. When someone appeals to an intuition to argue for something, it typically makes sense to ask how reliable their intuition is. Namely, how reliable is the intuition as a predictor of that “something”? The “something” in question might be some fact about the external world. Or it could be a fact about someone’s own future mental states, e.g., what they’d believe after thinking for a few years. Some examples, which might seem obvious but will be helpful to set up the contrast:…

When do intuitions need to be reliable?

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