Philosophical Insights

Since its inception, modern philosophy has had to compete with science. This competition has given rise to the question of what distinctive contribution philosophy can make to human knowledge. The conference will examine the genesis, nature and status of philosophical insights. It will bring together leading exponents of (post-)analytic, experimental and naturalistic philosophy, to develop and explore fresh answers, and address the issue of what kinds of contribution philosophy has made and can make to human knowledge – in particular in those areas in which it appears to compete with science.

David Papineau (King's College London): "The Importance of Armchair Analysis"
Tim Crane (Cambridge): “Philosophical Insights from History”
Jennifer Nagel (Toronto): "Armchair-friendly experiments"
Hilary Kornblith (Amherst): “Naturalistic Defenses of Intuition”
Jonathan Weinberg (Arizona): "Humans as Instruments: Or, The Inevitability of Experimental Philosophy"
Eugen Fischer (UEA): "Heuristics, Metaphors, and Philosophical Intuitions"
Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh): "Toward an Experimental Philosophy of Language"
John Collins (UEA): "An Appropriate Naturalisation of the Philosophy of Language"
James Ladyman (Bristol): "Is the Concept of Ontological Dependence a Distinctively Metaphysical One about which Only Philosophical Insight Can Deliver Knowledge?"
Bence Nanay (Universities of Antwerp and Cambridge): Experimental Philosophy and Naturalism
Amir Horowitz (The Open University of Israel): Cultural Divergence of Semantic Intuitions and the Real Reference of 'Gödel'
Wade Munroe (University of Western Michigan): The Methodological Assumptions of Experimental Philosophy
Mikkel Gerken (University of Copenhagen): Philosophical Insights and Modal Cognition
Daniele Sgaravatti (University of Cologne): Thought Experiments, Concepts, and Conceptions
Yuri Cath (Arché, St. Andrews / University of East Anglia): Intuiting as Possessing

Organised by Eugen Fischer and John Collins, University of East Anglia, in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, with support from the Mind Association.