Ideal Language Philosophy and Experiments on Intuitions
Studia Philosophica Estonica 2:117-139 (2009)
| Abstract | Proponents of linguistic philosophy hold that all non-empirical philosophical problems can be solved by either analyzing ordinary language or developing an ideal one. I review the debates on linguistic philosophy and between ordinary and ideal language philosophy. Using arguments from these debates, I argue that the results of experimental philosophy on intuitions support linguistic philosophy. Within linguistic philosophy, these experimental results support and complement ideal language philosophy. I argue further that some of the critiques of experimental philosophy are in fact defenses of ideal language philosophy. Finally, I show how much of the current debate about experimental philosophy is anticipated in the debates about and within linguistic philosophy. Specifically, arguments by ideal language philosophers support experimental philosophy. | |||||||||
| Keywords | intutitions experimental philosophy ideal language philosophy methodology ordinary language philosophy linguistic philosophy explication metaphilosophy | |||||||||
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