I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
When I first began studying philosophy, a good deal of what went on in analytic epistemology was focused on addressing the Gettier… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined. — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share
