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In Defense of Intuitions

A New Rationalist Manifesto

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Rationalism Redux: Rational Intuitions and Contemporary Philosophy

  3. Rationalism Regained: The Benacerraf Dilemmas and Rational Intuitions in Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy

About this book

A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

    Andrew Chapman, Robert Hanna, Henry W. Pickford

  • University of Illinois, USA

    Addison Ellis

  • University of Seattle at Washington, USA

    Tyler Hildebrand

About the authors

Author Andrew Chapman: Andrew D. Chapman is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He also holds a master's degree from Northern Illinois University. Author Addison Ellis: Addison Ellis is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Author Robert Hanna: Robert Hanna is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and the author or co-author of four books Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy [2001], Kant, Science, and Human Nature [2006], Rationality and Logic (2006), and Embodied Minds in Action (co-authored with M. Maiese, 2009). He has also held research or teaching positions at Cambridge University (UK), Monash University (AU), Yale University (USA), and York University (CA). Author Tyler Hildebrand: Tyler Hildebrand is an Acting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his papers have appeared in Philosophical Studies and Philosophers' Imprint. Author Henry W. Pickford: Henry W. Pickford is Assistant Professor of German, and affiliated with Philosophy, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He is the author of The Sense of Semblance: Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art and articles in journals including Modernism/Modernity, German Quarterly, MLN, Tolstoy Studies, and Architectural Theory Review, and is the editor and translator of Adorno's Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: In Defense of Intuitions

  • Book Subtitle: A New Rationalist Manifesto

  • Authors: Andrew Chapman, Addison Ellis, Robert Hanna, Tyler Hildebrand, Henry W. Pickford

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347954

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34793-0Published: 22 October 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46756-3Published: 01 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34795-4Published: 06 October 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 427

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

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