In this paper I articulate and defend a view that I call phenomenal dogmatism about intuitive justification. It is dogmatic because it includes the thesis: if it intuitively seems to you that p, then you thereby have some prima facie justification for believing that p. It is phenomenalist because it includes the thesis: intuitions justify us in believing their contents in virtue of their phenomenologyand in particular their presentational phenomenology. I explore the nature of presentational phenomenology as it occurs perception, and I make a case for thinking that it is present in a wide variety of logical, mathematical, and philosophical intuitions.
According to proponents of irreducible cognitive phenomenology some cognitive states put one in phenomenal states for which no wholly sensory states suffice. One of the main approaches to defending the view that there is irreducible cognitive phenomenology is to give a phenomenal contrast argument. In this paper I distinguish three kinds of phenomenal contrast argument: what I call pure-represented by Strawson's Jack/Jacques argument-hypothetical-represented by Kriegel's Zoe argument-and glossed-first developed here. I argue that pure and hypothetical phenomenal contrast arguments face significant difficulties, but that there is a sound glossed phenomenal contrast argument for irreducible cognitive phenomenology. Imagine being in the following situations:[Understanding] You are trying to read the instructions for a medicine a veterinarian prescribed for your dog. At first it is illegible. Then you see that it says to administer the medicine twice daily for one week.[Intuiting] In a book you read, "If a < 1, then 2 -2a > 0," and you wonder whether this is true. Then you "see" how a's being less than 1 makes 2a smaller than 2 and so 2 -2a greater than 0.
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