Laudan, Intuition and Normative Naturalism

The aim of this paper is to document Laudan’s rejection of the appeal to intuition in the context of his development of normative naturalism. At one point in the development of his methodological thinking, Laudan appealed to pre-analytic intuitions, which might be employed to identify episodes in th...

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Main Author:	Howard Sankey
Format:	Article
Language:	ces
Published:	Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2020-11-01
Series:	Organon F
Subjects:	epistemic normativity meta-methodology method theory-change
Online Access:	https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/11020854orgf.2020.27402.pdf

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spelling	doaj-bc90002f2b0349eeac2473ad26ecdbf12020-11-25T04:06:45ZcesInstitute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of SciencesOrganon F1335-06682585-71502020-11-01274437445https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27402Laudan, Intuition and Normative NaturalismHoward Sankey0University of MelbourneThe aim of this paper is to document Laudan’s rejection of the appeal to intuition in the context of his development of normative naturalism. At one point in the development of his methodological thinking, Laudan appealed to pre-analytic intuitions, which might be employed to identify episodes in the history of science against which theories of scientific methodology are to be tested. However, Laudan came to reject this appeal to intuitions, and rejected this entire approach to the evaluation of a theory of method. This is an important stage in the development of his normative naturalist meta-methodology.https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/11020854orgf.2020.27402.pdfepistemic normativitymeta-methodologymethodtheory-change
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title	Laudan, Intuition and Normative Naturalism
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description	The aim of this paper is to document Laudan’s rejection of the appeal to intuition in the context of his development of normative naturalism. At one point in the development of his methodological thinking, Laudan appealed to pre-analytic intuitions, which might be employed to identify episodes in the history of science against which theories of scientific methodology are to be tested. However, Laudan came to reject this appeal to intuitions, and rejected this entire approach to the evaluation of a theory of method. This is an important stage in the development of his normative naturalist meta-methodology.
topic	epistemic normativity meta-methodology method theory-change
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