Forming Impressions

Perception and intuition are our basic sources of knowledge. They are also capacities we deliberately improve in ways that draw on our knowledge. Elijah Chudnoff explores how this happens, developing an account of the epistemology of expert perception and expert intuition, and a rationalist view of the role of intuition in philosophy.

Elijah Chudnoff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 2008. He works primarily on topics at the intersection of theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind. He is the author of Intuition (2013, Oxford University Press) and Cognitive Phenomenology (2015, Routledge).

Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Characterizing Expert Impressions
1: Locating Expert Impressions
2: Expertise and Perceptual Modularity
3: The Accessibility of Expert Intuition
Part 2: The Epistemology of Expert Impressions
4: Presentational Conservatism
5: Cognitive Penetration, Expertise, and Background Information
Part 3: Expert Impressions in Philosophy
6: The Standard Picture
7: The Place of Expert Intuition in Philosophy
Conclusion
Bibliography