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 |
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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: | 24 Sep 2024 11:09 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56946 |
DOI: | 10.1111/mila.12095 |
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