But this just seems totally ludicrous to me. If we trust cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, etc., and if those fields give us perfectly plausible reasons for why we might intuitively feel this way / talk this way, even if it didn’t reflect the truth, then what could possibly be your motivation for sticking to your intuitions anyway and using them to support some grand metaphysical theory?
My intuitions haven’t killed me yet. The human race pretty much runs on intuitions, and it’s still around.
I will be goddamned if I’ll give absolute trust to cognitive science and evolutionary psychology considering the problems science has with lack of replication. Also, science has a tendency to Find More Stuff, which would suggest that one should have a little humility about building very much metaphysics on science.
Doing science (so far at least) requires a pretty naive approach. Scientists behave as though they think they make choices and they believe that they can read their instruments accurately.
All this being said, I wouldn’t mind if there was more investigation into people’s intuitions about how the world and people work.
My intuitions haven’t killed me yet. The human race pretty much runs on intuitions, and it’s still around.
I will be goddamned if I’ll give absolute trust to cognitive science and evolutionary psychology considering the problems science has with lack of replication. Also, science has a tendency to Find More Stuff, which would suggest that one should have a little humility about building very much metaphysics on science.
Doing science (so far at least) requires a pretty naive approach. Scientists behave as though they think they make choices and they believe that they can read their instruments accurately.
All this being said, I wouldn’t mind if there was more investigation into people’s intuitions about how the world and people work.
The anti-intuition crowd need to demonstrate that they are no using any intuitions at all.