Intuition As Conscious Experience
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Intuition as Conscious Experience
Drawing on the most recent philosophical research on intuition and perception, Ole Koksvik defends the idea that intuition not only justifies belief but can play a much wider role in our everyday epistemic lives than previously thought.
Intuition as Conscious Experience
Is torturing the innocent OK? Just now something happened: it seemed to you that torturing the innocent is wrong. What kind of mental state were you in? What is its nature? Perhaps you now believe that torturing the innocent is wrong because it just seemed to you that it is. If so, that seems appropriate. But is it really, and if so, what could explain this? In this book, Koksvik argues these mental states form a psychological kind called ‘intuition’, and that having an intuition indeed justifies you in believing what it says. What explains this, he argues, is how similar intuition is to perception. Through a detailed examination he shows that intuition, just like perception, is a conscious experience, and that the two experience types have important properties in common, in virtue of which they can both justify belief. In sharp contrast to traditional thought, Koksvik argues that intuition is completely unrestricted in content: we have intuitions about morality and metaphysics, but also about all sorts of everyday things, like danger or trustworthiness, and in all cases they can justify. The use of intuition is thus not only a legitimate part of philosophical and scientific practice, it also plays a pervasive, important and legitimate role in all of our everyday rational lives.
Inner Knowing
"The human mind has the capability to function consistently at high levels of perception, creativity, and intuitiveness. Indeed, all of us have at one time in our lives experienced a sense of clarity that led to a Eureka! What would we give to be able again to attain that moment when the mind enters another state of knowing? In Inner Knowing, the latest addition to Tarcher's successful New Consciousness Reader series, Helen Palmer, author of The Enneagram, has compiled a collection of writings exploring such abilities and illustrating how they can be developed. In this anthology we learn how to exercise the mind, understand synchronicity, experience 'flow,' establish communication between the conscious and the subconscious, use the active imagination, listen to the body's feedback. In addition, we read firsthand accounts of psychic displays of fire-walking, clairvoyance, and similar phenomena that are included among hte mind's fascinating powers. A sophisticated book representing the essence of the New Consciousness Reader series, Inner Knowing offers us confidence in ourselves as we reawaken subtle senses and learn to trust and apply new ways of perceiving, knowing, and living."--back cover.