The Handbook of Intuitions: Perspectives from global philosophy (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 57)

This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of intuitions from a variety of traditions.It brings together works by the best specialists working on intuitions in five different traditions: the South Asian tradition, the Chinese tradition, the Japanese tradition, the Arabo-Islamic tradition, and the Western tradition with, in this last case, a focus on philosophy of language and on philosophy of mathematics.It highlights the similarities and differences between the traditions bringing the various perspectives into one volume. In the Western traditions, a first approximation to the meaning of the term may be to say that we intuit that p, as opposed to, for example, deducing that p, when we believe that p is true but without the mediation of any other belief, that serves as a basis for believing that p.In the naturalistic perspective, intuition is nothing other than the starting point of a rudimentary theory, expressed by classifications or by instances of singular propositions of the