A. Chapman & A. Ellis 
In Defense of Intuitions 
A New Rationalist Manifesto

A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them.

Table of Content

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

About the author

Author Andrew Chapman: Andrew D. Chapman is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He also holds a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University. Author Addison Ellis: Addison Ellis is a Ph D candidate in philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Author Robert Hanna: Robert Hanna is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and the author or co-author of four books Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy [2001], Kant, Science, and Human Nature [2006], Rationality and Logic (2006), and Embodied Minds in Action (co-authored with M. Maiese, 2009). He has also held research or teaching positions at Cambridge University (UK), Monash University (AU), Yale University (USA), and York University (CA). Author Tyler Hildebrand: Tyler Hildebrand is an Acting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his papers have appeared in Philosophical Studies and Philosophers’ Imprint. Author Henry W. Pickford: Henry W. Pickford is Assistant Professor of German, and affiliated with Philosophy, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He is the author of The Sense of Semblance: Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art and articles in journals including Modernism/Modernity, German Quarterly, MLN, Tolstoy Studies, and Architectural Theory Review, and is the editor and translator of Adorno’s Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords.