What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while… — 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… — 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
But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those… — 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 Ancient Copy Share Image
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is… — Hilary Kornblith Animal Copy Share Image
Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that… — Hilary Kornblith Acquisition Copy Share Image
I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and armchair approaches.… — Hilary Kornblith Approach Copy Share Image
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 Analytics Copy Share Image
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not… — 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 Acquisition 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
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims… — Hilary Kornblith Ability 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
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
“Intuition must be taken seriously in the absence of substantial theoretical understanding, but once such theoretical understanding begins to take shape, prior… — Hilary Kornblith Epistemology Copy Share Image
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be… — 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 Fear Copy Share Image
My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy… — Hilary Kornblith Analogies Copy Share Image
The idea that we should check on our unreflective belief acquisition sounds great, but we need to know whether the processes of… — Hilary Kornblith Acquisition Copy Share Image
In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is… — 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 do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by… — Hilary Kornblith Bounds Copy Share Image
By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for… — 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 Audience Copy Share Image
No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our… — 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 Abstract Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Animal Copy Share Image
There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of… — Hilary Kornblith Ability 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
So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
