According to Heinrich Schmidinger, science assumes rational confirmability and verifiability as minimal qualifications. Science is bound to methods operating beyond subjective convictions and embodying their plausibility in their generalisability. Intuition as a highly individual and essentially irrational mode of cognition apparently cannot find its place here. But it is empirically evident that intuition does appear in the academic activities. This congress focuses on three questions concerning intuition and science:
 
1) Which role did and does intuition play in the evolution of particular branches of science? What can be said about intuition in the sciences from an epistemological and scientifichistorical, quasi external perspective?
 
2) How do diverse scientific fields of knowledge and disciplines approach intuition? Which definitions do they offer? What does the so to speak internal perspective look like? Does something like “applied intuition” exist in science?
 
3) Can intuition serve as a link between scientific and non-scientific modes of cognition and ways of perception? Scientists and scholars domiciled in different disciplines will ask and answer these questions and light up from various perspectives the relevance of intuition in academic epistemology.