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Neo-Confucianism, Experimental Philosophy and the Trouble with Intuitive Methods (2018)

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The proper role of intuitions in philosophy has been debated throughout its history, and especially since the turn of the twenty-first century. The context of this recent debate within analytic philosophy has been the heightened interest in (and use of) intuitions as data points that need to be accommodated or explained away by philosophical theories. This, in turn, has given rise to a sceptical movement called experimental philosophy, whose advocates seek to understand the nature and reliability of such intuitions (along with related judgements and behaviour). Yet such scepticism of intuition or introspective methods can be found in earlier periods and across philosophical traditions. Indeed, the Neo-Confucian philosophers of the Song and Ming dynasties (ca. tenth to seventeenth centuries CE) seem to exemplify this very tension, as they can be divided into an intuitionistic school on the one hand and an investigative school on the other. In this paper, I argue that, notwithstanding some obvious differences, there are broad similarities between the dynamics at play across these philosophical traditions. Moreover, by comparing and juxtaposing them, we will come to appreciate the distinctiveness of each, as their attendant aims, weaknesses and strengths become more salient thereby.

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Authors & Contributors
L. U. Mingxin
Nado, Jennifer
Beebe, James R.
Nathan Vedal
Fischer, Eugen
Miller, Ian Matthew
Concepts
Experimental philosophy
Philosophy
Experiments and experimentation
Confucianism
Methodology
Case studies
Time Periods
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Early modern
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Modern
Places
China
Japan
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