6 Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What Are They?
14 What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy?
This paper explores the dominance of the method of intuition in contemporary philosophy whereby intuitive responses to particular cases are central to one's philosophical theorizing which aims somehow to “accommodate” these responses. The paper argues that this focus on intuition is lamentable because it leads to an unduly conservative limitation of philosophy and may lead us arbitrarily to restrict our philosophical options. The paper closes by identifying the source of the ascendancy of the method of intuition in Moore's and Russell's influential but misguided attack on Bradley's rejection of relations. The paper thus offers a new perspective on the origins of analytical philosophy.