Linguistic Intuitions Evidence and Method

Samuel Schindler, Associate Professor, Aarhus University,Anna Drożdżowicz, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oslo,Karen Br?cker, Affiliated Researcher, Aarhus University

Samuel Schindler is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus University. He holds a BSc in Cognitive Science and received his MA and PhD in philosophy from Leeds University. He is the author of Theoretical Virtues in Science (CUP, 2018) and of several articles in leading philosophy of science journals. He has won two prestigious research grants: one from the German Research Foundation in 2011 and one from the Independent Research Fund Denmark in 2015 for the project Intuitions in Science and Philosophy.


Anna Drożdżowicz is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Philosophy (School of Advanced Study) and Birkbeck's Department of Philosophy, University of London. She received her PhD from the University of Oslo in 2015. From 2016 to 2018 she was a postdoctoral researcher on the project ntuitions in Science and Philosophy at the Centre for Science Studies, Aarhus University. She works primarily on the philosophy of mind and language, but has also published papers in philosophical methodology, psychology, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychiatry.


Karen Br?cker holds a PhD in Science Studies and an MA and BA in Linguistics from Aarhus University. Her research focuses on theoretical linguistics and philosophy of linguistics, in particular the theoretical assumptions underlying the use of linguistic intuitions as evidence for theories of grammar. Her PhD was part of the project Intuitions in Science and Philosophy at the Centre for Science Studies, Aarhus University.

1. Introduction, Karen Br?cker, Anna Drożdżowicz, and Samuel Schindler
Part I: Accounts of linguistic intuitions
2. Linguistic intuitions: Error signals and the Voice of Competence, Steven Gross
3. A defence of the Voice of Competence, Georges Rey
4. Linguistic intuitions again: A response to Gross and Rey, Michael Devitt
5. Do generative linguists believe in a Voice of Competence?, Karen Br?cker
6. Semantic and syntactic intuitions: Two sides of the same coin, John Collins
7. Intuitions about meaning, experience, and reliability, Anna Drożdżowicz
8. How we can make good use of linguistic intuitions, even if they aren't good evidence, Carlos Santana
Part II: Experiments in syntax
9. The relevance of introspective data, Frederick J. Newmeyer
10. Can we build a grammar on the basis of judgments?, Sam Featherston
11. Acceptability ratings cannot be taken at face value, Carson T. Sch?tze
12. A user's view of the validity of acceptability judgments as evidence for syntactic theories, Jon Sprouse
13. inguistic intuitions and the puzzle of gradience, Jana H?ussler and Tom S. Juzek
14. Experiments in syntax and philosophy: The method of choice?, Samuel Schindler and Karen Br?cker