Thought-experiment intuitions and truth in fiction.

What sorts of things are the intuitions generated via thought experiment? Timothy Williamson has responded to naturalistic skeptics by arguing that thought-experiment intuitions are judgments of ordinary counterfactuals. On this view, the intuition is naturalistically innocuous, but it has a conting...

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Published in:	Philosophical Studies Vol. 142; no. 2; pp. 221 - 247
Main Authors:	Ichikawa, Jonathan, Jarvis, Benjamin
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jan2009
Subjects:	Williamson, Timothy, 1955- Thought experiments Counterfactuals (Logic) Intuition Belief & doubt
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost