Meditations with Zohar cover image

Kieran Setiya: Philosophy, Self-Help, and AI S1 E25

Meditations with Zohar

00:00

Do You Think of Intuition in Philosophy?

There's a lot of debates in contemporary philosophy about the role of intuition in philosophical methodology. Do you trust that there's something wrong more than i trust the argument? I don't know how to say what's wrong with the argument but i'm going to find it, he says. Following the argument where it leads is a kind of ideal for us  but on one's interpretation of that i don't really think one should and that's partly because our ability to know not by way of argument how to think about a topic is more reliable than our best arguments we can come up with. "Our knowledge often outruns what we can argue for" - John Stuart Mill.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app