Jes Heppler, PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, with her dissertation entitled: “Gut Feelings,
Orientation, and Embodied Epistemology.”
Jes Heppler’s dissertation builds on existing literature about intuition and argues for a novel distinction between intuitions and gut feelings: intuitions with an embodied mode of presentation. Because gut feelings present their content in the body, they raise a new set of questions about the affective, epistemic, and ethical dimensions of intuition. Jes explores the disorienting nature of gut feelings and argues that the right epistemic orientation can allow us to benefit from gut feelings’ revelatory nature while taking appropriate caution towards their liability to reflect fallacies and prejudice. She plans to defend her dissertation in May 2025.
Congrats and welcome Jes!