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Fischer, Eugen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610 and Engelhardt, Paul E.
(2017)
Diagnostic Experimental Philosophy.
teorema, 36 (3).
pp. 117-137.
ISSN 0210-1602
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Abstract
Experimental philosophy’s much-discussed ‘restrictionist’ program seeks to delineate the extent to which philosophers may legitimately rely on intuitions about possible cases. The present paper shows that this program can be (i) put to the service of diagnostic problem-resolution (in the wake of J.L. Austin) and (ii) pursued by constructing and experimentally testing psycholinguistic explanations of intuitions which expose their lack of evidentiary value: The paper develops a psycholinguistic explanation of paradoxical intuitions that are prompted by verbal case-descriptions, and presents two experiments that support the explanation. This debunking explanation helps resolve philosophical paradoxes about perception (known as ‘arguments from hallucination’).
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2017 00:06 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:44 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62033 |
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