Empirical examinations about cross-cultural variability of intuitions, the well-known publication of Stich and his colleagues criticiz-ing thought-experiments and intuitions in philosophical debates, is still a challenge that faces analytical philosophers, as any systematic investigation of the methodology of philosophy must give answers to these basic questions: What is intuition? What role should intuitions play in philosophy? I present and examine the sceptical argument of experimental philosophers, and claim that experimental philosophers misunderstand the role of evidence in philosophy. My argument will utilize Goldman’s view, according to which intuitions give reliable (though not infallible) evidence about a person’s concepts, and this knowledge is valuable for further philosophical research as well. I will argue that the sceptical conclusions of experimental philosophers are harmless against this conception of philosophy, because even from a naturalist perspective certain kind of intuitive judgments about our concepts can be warranted, and this grants the specific epistemic status of intuitions. Of course, the reliability of introspection can be challenged. However, denying self-knowledge about my internal mental states is disputable - as I will show - both from a philosophical and a scientific point of view., Empirické zkoušky o mezikulturní variabilitě intuic, známá publikace Sticha a jeho kolegů, kteří kritizovali myšlenkové experimenty a intuice ve filosofických debatách, jsou stále výzvou, před níž stojí analytičtí filozofové, jako jakékoli systematické zkoumání metodologie filosofie musí odpovědět na tyto základní otázky: Co je to intuice? Jakou roli by měly ve filozofii hrát intuice? Předkládám a zkoumám skeptický argument experimentálních filosofů a tvrdím, že experimentální filozofové nepochopili roli důkazu ve filozofii. Můj argument využije Goldmanovy názory, podle kterých intuice dávají spolehlivé (i když neomylné) důkazy o pojetí člověka, a tyto znalosti jsou cenné i pro další filosofický výzkum. Tvrdím, že skeptické závěry experimentálních filosofů jsou proti tomuto pojetí filosofie neškodné, protože i z naturalistického hlediska může být odůvodněn určitý druh intuitivních úsudků o našich pojmech, což poskytuje specifický epistemický stav intuic. Samozřejmě, že spolehlivost introspekce může být zpochybněna. Nicméně popírání sebepoznání mých vnitřních duševních stavů je sporné - jak ukážu já - jak z filozofického, tak vědeckého hlediska., and Péter Hartl
Language acquisition is one of the currently much discussed topics in the field of psycholinguistics. Considerable space for future research can be seen in the development of vocabulary in Czech-speaking children. In our case, we are mainly interested in the meaning, i.e. the content of acquired words (concepts), and the role of so-called semantic features in mental representation.
The intended goal of our research is to bring new information from the above-mentioned area, to confirm or disprove some existing theoretical statements and to compare the results of foreign research with data obtained using the Czech language material. Similar research has been conducted in various world languages, but so far there are not many papers that address the issue in the Czech language environment. As part of our work, a comprehensive database of semantic features for selected concepts has been prepared. This database has been statistically processed and subsequently the data has been analyzed and interpreted on the basis of theories about the development of the child's speech competence. This material, obtained from children aged 8-9 (lower primary school) growing up in a Czech language environment, has been used in the next phase of research, in which an experiment with subjects belonging to the same age category has been performed: in a semantic task based on the phenomenon called semantic priming, the effect of featural similarity of two concepts on decision in a speeded task has been observed.
The results of the research expand the range of information published so far in this scientific field in the Czech environment. This research can provide valuable insights into children's language acquisition issues. The data gathered can also be practically beneficial not only for teachers, psychologists and speech therapists, but also for parents, for example.