Related: It’s apparently quite common for philosophical intuitions to divide along gender lines. Academic philosophy is a heavily male-dominated field, and there are a number of ostensibly “intuitive” propositions that are actually quite uncommon among women. See:
Interesting paper, but one thing that annoys me about it is how they don’t discuss what qualifies as an intuition. The various thought-experiments about what it means to “know” something or about what’s right or wrong, sure. But then they also report on questions like “is determinism and free will compatible” and “could a robot ever experience love”.These are things you analyze and reason out, you don’t just have an intuition about it!
Education levels are another big one (and not simply with respect to things where education should give you more accurate intuitions, whatever that would mean.) How much confidence “know” implies, for instance.
Related: It’s apparently quite common for philosophical intuitions to divide along gender lines. Academic philosophy is a heavily male-dominated field, and there are a number of ostensibly “intuitive” propositions that are actually quite uncommon among women. See:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1683066
Interesting paper, but one thing that annoys me about it is how they don’t discuss what qualifies as an intuition. The various thought-experiments about what it means to “know” something or about what’s right or wrong, sure. But then they also report on questions like “is determinism and free will compatible” and “could a robot ever experience love”.These are things you analyze and reason out, you don’t just have an intuition about it!
Education levels are another big one (and not simply with respect to things where education should give you more accurate intuitions, whatever that would mean.) How much confidence “know” implies, for instance.