In Defense of Intuitions: A New Rationalist Manifesto

Introduction: The Old Rationalism and the New Rationalism PART I: RATIONALISM REDUX: RATIONAL INTUITIONS AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY 1. The Self-Imposition of Authoritative Rational Intuition 2 Beyond Experimentalism 3. Rational Intuitions and Analytic Metaphysics 4. Towards a Defense of Rational Intuitions PART II: RATIONALISM REGAINED: THE BENACERRAF DILEMMAS AND RATIONAL INTUITIONS IN MATHEMATICS, LOGIC, AND PHILOSOPHY 5. Introduction 6. Rationalism Lost: The Original Benacerraf Dilemma 7. The Benacerraf Dilemma Extended and Generalized 8. What is A Priori Knowledge? 9. What are Intuitions? 10. Rational Intuitions and the Irrelevance of Experimental Philosophy 11. Philosophical Intuitions, Scientific Naturalism, and The Mathematico-Centric Predicament 12. Kantian Structuralism 13. Kantian Intuitionism 14. Parsons, Kantian Structuralism, and Kantian Intuitionism 15. Why Logic Must Be Transcendental 16. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index