Full Idea
'Intuition' plays a major role in contemporary analytic philosophy's self-understanding. ...When contemporary analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they appeal to intuitions. ...Thus intuitions are presented as our evidence in philosophy.
Gist of Idea
When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence
Source
Timothy Williamson (The Philosophy of Philosophy [2007], p.214-5), quoted by Herman Cappelen - Philosophy without Intuitions 01.1
Book Reference
Cappelen,Herman: 'Philosophy Without Intuitions' [OUP 2012], p.3
A Reaction
Williamson says we must investigate this 'scandal', but Cappelen's book says analytic philosophy does not rely on intuition.