%0 Journal Article
%T Ideal Language Philosophy and Experiments on Intuitions
%A Sebastian Lutz
%J Studia Philosophica Estonica
%D 2009
%I University of Tartu
%X 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.
%K experimental philosophy
%K explication
%K intuition
%K linguistic philosophy
%K ordinary language philosophy
%K ideal language philosophy
%K metaphilosophy
%U http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs-2.2.2/index.php/spe/article/view/65/49