Whenever I present my work on intuition mongering in Philosophy, I sometimes
get reactions similar to the one reported by Nick
Byrd on the Experimental
Philosophy blog here:
The assumption underlying such reactions seems to be something
like this: “If you’re criticizing accepted ways of doing Philosophy, then you
must want to kill Philosophy.” But this is bad reasoning. Take it from me; my
people make this mistake all the time. They (not all of them, of course) think that
anyone
who criticizes Israel’s current policies is an anti-Semite who wants to destroy
Israel. But there are those who criticize Israel, not because they hate
Israel, but because they think that the current
policies are bad for Israel.
Similarly, there are those who criticize accepted ways of
doing Philosophy, not because they are anti-Philosophy, but because they think
that these methods are bad for Philosophy.
I always thought this point is so obvious that
it goes without saying. Unfortunately, my experience suggests otherwise.
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