Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited

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Abstract: Recent work by Joshua Knobe indicates that people’s intuition about whether an action wasintentionaldepends on whether the outcome is good or bad. This paper argues that part of the explanation for this effect is that there are stable individual differences in how ‘intentional’ is interpreted. That is, in Knobe’s cases, different people interpret the term in different ways. Thisinterpretive diversityof ‘intentional’ opens up a new avenue to help explain Knobe’s results. Furthermore, the paper argues that the use of intuitions in philosophy is complicated by fact that there are robust individual differences in intuitions about matters of philosophical concern.

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