The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
On essays by Charles Sanders Peirce: “Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man” and “Some Consequences of Four Incapacities,” both from 1868.
Do we know when knowledge is intuitive? Is there any such thing as intuitive knowledge? Do we directly experience the self or anything introspective, or do we just infer facts about ourselves from external perspectives? Peirce provides counter-intuitive responses to all these questions.
