In my first philosophy class, in college, a teaching assistant explained that “intuition,” in his field, meant something quite different from what it means in the phrase “women’s intuition.” That may have been truer than he knew.

Intuition, or apprehension of certain facts or conclusions by the mind alone, sometimes without the intervention of reason, is in theory genderless. But at the website Experimental Philosophy, a professor at the City University of New York, Wesley Buckwalter, presents evidence that men and women intuit different conclusions when faced with the same sets of facts.