This presentation helps us understand what intuition is, what is not. This brings about its significance in modern period in problem solving. This says how humans had a stereotypical view on the conventions of reason and rationality. Some arguments for and against Intuition's epistemological status are provided.

1. Intuition
ITS R ELEVAN C E IN
MOD ER N SC IEN C E

2. Now we are in a Seminar titled
'DEBATES ON RATIONALITY IN
SCIENCE'.
In the received view, science absolute
Now this view, obsolete.
The then disregarded intuition takes
its place
Introduction

3. Exaltation
of
Reason

4. Rationality was seen as logicality, justification, scientificity, goal-orientedness, fundamental
assumption of being human and deducibility.
Ancient Greeks believed that philosophy is a way of life that is grounded in reason, and since the
beginning of time.
For Pythagoras and Heraclitus, the cosmos is even said to have reason.
For Socrates, ideal of rationality - both objectivity and personal autonomy.
For Plato, the just individual or a philosopher’s psychic condition is made possible by the rule of
reason.
Aristotle emphasized reason as a characteristic of human nature.
For Aquinas, humans have reason and because reason is a spark of the divine, every single
human life is invaluable
For Kant, reason is the vehicle of morality, justice, aesthetics, theories of knowledge and
understanding.

5. POSTMODERN THINKERS
QUESTIONED THE MONOPOLY OF
RATIONALITY.
UNCERTAINTY OF INDUCTIVE
REASONING, WHICH IS THE VERY
FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE.
FALSIFICATION CANNOT BE THE
CRITERION OF DEMARCATION OF
SCIENCE AND NON-SCIENCE.
Limitations of
Reason

6. Bane of Classical Rationalism in Daily
Life:
However, there are several kinds of circumstances in which rational
deliberation would be irrational.
Harmful Unproductive Baseless Redundant
Inconsistent
with other
ideals
Classical rationalists claim that we use our reasoning capacity to make
judgments and decisions.

7. Intuition – Recognized in Contemporary
Philosophy of Science
Oxford Dictionary - INTUITION - the ability to know
something by using your feelings rather than considering the
facts; an idea or a strong feeling that something is true
although you cannot explain why.
Not a supernatural power or a magical inner voice.
When you have an intuition that A, it seems to you that A.

8. Distinction of Intuition from Other Concepts
• Distinction between intuition and imagination.
• Distinction from belief: belief is not a seeming; intuition is.
• Distinction from sense perception. Intuition is an intellectual seeming;
• Distinction from common sense. We often lack a priori intuitions about
matters that are highly commonsensical.
• The distinctions are of utmost importance. Intuition as a term for
intellectual seeming, according to the standard justificatory procedure,
intuitions are counted as prima facie evidence.

9. Intuition – Recognized
in Contemporary Philosophy of
Science
Kuhn's conception of intuition features it right at
the heart of rational enquiry
That the genesis of intuitions is subject to
chance does not entail that matters of
justification are also subject to chance.
For Krishnamurti, Intuition is intelligence.

10. Arguments against Intuition
Byrd Nick’s
Argument that
Intuition is
Knowledge by
Chance
Goldman's Approach
to Intuition as the
Use of a Mere Stored
Set of Facts
Timothy’s Argument
that Intuition is Our
Ordinary Capacity for
Judgement

11. Defence of
Intuition
Radical experimentalists believe that we
should give up the standard philosophical
practice of using intuitions as evidence
Matthew Liao brings about a way of
understanding why some intuitions can be
unreliable and how intuitions can conflict.
Both moderate experimentalism and the
standard philosophical practice of using
intuitions as evidence can help resolve
these conflicts.

12. Epistemically Self-Defeating Objection to
Intuition
Joel Pust claims that certain attempts to argue against the evidential worth of intuitions
are bound to be self-defeating.
For it is by our intuitions alone that we are able to make basic epistemic classifications
integral to any theorizing.
Thus, any argument against the evidential value of intuition must presuppose its
epistemic worth, thereby making arguments against intuition epistemically self-defeat.
Still this counter objection suffers mutual self-defeat.

13. Kantian
Intuition and
its implication
in Quantum
Physics

14. Kantian Intuition
• Intuition is a non-logical mental form of
representation.
• Intuition performs certain epistemic and
semantic tasks that cannot be performed
by formal logic and the axiomatic method.
• Intuition guarantees the ability to
distinguish:
individual objects in space and time
objects in nature which are of the same
kind
mirror-opposite formations in nature

15. It's Implication
in Quantum
Physics
We are able to represent the objects of classical
mechanics (Example: billiard balls for planets) as
objects in space and time with well-defined properties.
But this is not the case with the intended objects of
reference of quantum mechanics, i.e., subatomic
constituents of matter such as electrons or protons.
According to Bohr and Heisenberg, quantum theory
requires an interpretation in terms of intuitive classical
concepts such as ‘position’ and ‘momentum’.
Thus, the intuitive classical concepts must be
operationally reinterpreted in quantum physics

16. Conclusion
• Intuition is closely associated with Scientific Knowledge.
• The major role of intuition is to provide a conceptual foundation that
suggests the directions which new research should take.
• The role of intuition in research is to provide the "educated guess,even a
false guess may lead to progress.
• Replacing the "do this, do that" mode of teaching by a "what should be
done next?" Attitude
• It is not the question of superiority. But reason and Intuition complement
each other resulting in creativity and uniqueness in quest for truth.

17. Thank
You!