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
Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs… — 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
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
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More… — Hilary Kornblith Argument Copy Share Image
I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I… — 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
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations,… — 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
One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view,… — 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 Agreement Copy Share Image
Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave… — 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 Bears Copy Share Image
Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First,… — Hilary Kornblith Achievement Copy Share Image
The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of… — Hilary Kornblith Acquisition 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
If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency,… — Hilary Kornblith Facts 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
