Can There Be a Discipline of Philosophy? And Can It Be Founded on Intuitions?

Mind and Language 26 (4):453-467 (2011)
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This paper takes up the critique of armchair philosophy drawn by some experimental philosophers from survey results. It also takes up a more recent development with increased methodological sophistication. The argument based on disagreement among respondents suggests a much more serious problem for armchair philosophy and puts in question the standing of our would-be discipline

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10.1111/j.1468-0017.2011.01426.x

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Ernest Sosa
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