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Challenges→A successful argument for selective skepticism regarding intuitions must not equally apply to many other sources of putatively justified belief.

Experimental philosophy demonstrates that intuitive judgments vary systematically with culture, order effects, and demographic factors in ways that perceptual beliefs demonstrably do not.

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1.Experimental philosophy studies show moral intuitions about trolley problems shift with scenario framing; perceptual color identification remains constant across contexts.
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2.Demographic variation in philosophical intuitions (e.g., on knowledge, free will) exceeds variation in basic perceptual tasks, suggesting different cognitive mechanisms.
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3.Order effects demonstrably influence philosophical judgments but not low-level perception, indicating intuitions lack perceptual robustness.
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1.Perceptual beliefs also vary culturally: color categorization, gestalt completion, and spatial reasoning differ significantly across societies.
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2.Variation in philosophical intuitions may reflect different interpretations of ambiguous language, not fundamental unreliability of intuitive judgment itself.
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3.Experimental philosophy conflates intuition variability with unreliability; stable systematic variation across groups doesn't prove intuitions lack justificatory force.
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Demographic factors(one reason why people's intuitive judgments differ): Characteristics of people like their age, gender, where they're from, their education level, or cultural background.
Experimental philosophy(British philosophy c. 1700): A dominant strand of natural philosophy in England by 1700, associated with figures such as Boyle, Newton, and Locke.
Intuitive judgments(what experimental philosophy studies): Quick, gut-level conclusions you make about something without having to think through all the logical steps—what feels right to you immediately.
Perceptual beliefs(the type of beliefs being discussed): Things you believe to be true based directly on what you see, hear, or sense with your five senses.
Systematically(as describing a consistent problem with voting methods): Happening as a regular pattern or built-in feature of how something works, rather than by accident or rarely.
order effects(as an irrelevant factor that might influence intuitions): Changes in how people respond based on the sequence or order in which they see or experience things—for example, answering differently if a question comes first versus last.

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