Intuitions’ linguistic sources:Stereotypes, intuitions, and illusions

Fischer, Eugen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610 and Engelhardt, Paul (2016) Intuitions’ linguistic sources:Stereotypes, intuitions, and illusions. Mind and Language, 31 (1). pp. 65-101. ISSN 0268-1064

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Abstract

Intuitive judgments elicited by verbal case-descriptions play key roles in philosophical problem-setting and argument. Experimental philosophy’s ‘sources project’ seeks to develop psychological explanations of philosophically relevant intuitions which help us assess our warrant for accepting them. This paper develops a psycholinguistic explanation of intuitions prompted by philosophical case-descriptions. For proof of concept, we target intuitions underlying a classic paradox about perception (‘argument from illusion’), trace them to stereotype-driven inferences automatically executed in verb comprehension, and employ a forced-choice plausibility-ranking task to elicit the relevant stereotypical associations of perception- and appearance-verbs. We obtain a debunking explanation which resolves the philosophical paradox.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024) Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	05 Feb 2016 08:08
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2024 00:40
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56946
DOI:	10.1111/mila.12095

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