In Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds, Edouard Machery argues that resolving many
traditional and contemporary philosophical issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that …

This much should be uncontroversial: The method of cases plays an important role in
contemporary philosophy. While there is disagreement about how best to interpret this …

This article examines whether people share the Gettier intuition (viz. that someone who has
a true justified belief that p may nonetheless fail to know that p) in 24 sites, located in 23 …

Many philosophers believe they can gain knowledge about the world from the comfort of
their armchairs, simply by reflecting on the nature of things. But how can the mind arrive at …

According to the expertise defense, practitioners of the method of cases need not worry
about findings that ordinary people's philosophical intuitions depend on epistemically …

Academics across widely ranging disciplines all pursue knowledge, but they do so using
vastly different methods. Do these academics therefore also have different ideas about when …

In this article, we discuss critically some of the key themes in Max Deutsch's excellent book,
The Myth of the Intuitive. We focus in particular on the shortcomings of his historical analysis …

This chapter poses a challenge to the use of intuitions as evidence in both mentalist and
extra-mentalist projects. It considers two sorts of responses to that challenge. The first …

In this paper, we report the results of three high-powered replication studies in experimental
philosophy, which bear on an alleged instability of folk philosophical intuitions: the purported …

We present three experiments that explore the robustness of the authentic-apparent effect—
the finding that participants are less likely to attribute knowledge to the protagonist in …