Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations

by Lisa M. Osbeck (Editor), Barbara S. Held (Editor)

What is intuition? What constitutes an intuitive process? Why are intuition concepts important? After many years of scholarly neglect, interest in intuition is now exploding in psychology and cognitive science. Moreover, intuition is also enjoying a renaissance in philosophy. Yet no single definition of intuition appears in contemporary scholarship; there is no consensus on the meaning of this concept in any discipline. Rational Intuition focuses on conceptions of intuition in relation to rational processes. Covering a broad range of historical and contemporary contexts, prominent philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists explore how intuition is implicated in rational activity in its diverse forms. In bringing the philosophical history of intuition into novel dialogue with contemporary philosophical and empirical research, Lisa M. Osbeck and Barbara S. Held invite a comparison of the conceptions and functions of intuition, thereby clarifying and advancing conceptual analysis across disciplines.

440 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2014

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Table of Contents

Introduction Lisa M. Osbeck and Barbara S. Held

Part I. Intuition in Western Philosophy:

1. Intuition in Aristotle
Robert Bolton

2. Ockham: intuition and knowledge
Claude Panaccio

3. Descartes on intuition and ideas
Peter Machamer and Marcus P. Adams

4. In a grain of sand: Spinoza's conception of intuition
William Meehan

5. Kant: intuition and the synthetic a priori
Daniel N. Robinson

6. Husserl's phenomenological theory of intuition
Chad Kidd

7. Bergsonian intuition: getting back into duration
Heath Massey

8. Intuition in mathematics
Elijah Chudnoff

9. Intuition in contemporary philosophy
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa

Part II. Intuition in Psychology and Cognitive Science:

10. Expert intuition
Edward T. Cokely and Adam Feltz

11. Intuition in strategic thinking
William Duggan

12. Intuition in Kahneman and Tversky's Psychology of Rationality
Thomas Sturm

13. Creative intuition: How Eureka results from three neural mechanisms
Paul Thagard

14. Becoming knowledge: cognitive and neural mechanisms that support scientific intuition
Sanjay Chandrasekharan

15. Intuition in twenty-first-century moral psychology
Roger Giner-Sorolla

16. Intuitions in the study of language: syntax and semantics
Peter Slezak

17. Jung and Whitehead: an interplay of psychological and philosophical perspectives on rationality and intuition
Farzad Mahootian and Tara-Marie Linné.