--- title: "18 Views Quotes By Hilary Kornblith" description: "18 Views quotes by Hilary Kornblith. Plus more from Hilary Kornblith and more Views sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/hilary-kornblith-11063_concepts_the-role-of-empirical-work-in-informing_268685.jpg" --- > [The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-role-of-empirical-work-in-informing-our-philosophical-theories-as/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/hilary-kornblith-11063_concepts_the-role-of-empirical-work-in-informing_268685.jpg) > [What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/what-we-need-to-do-however-is-figure-out-what-our-best-available/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/hilary-kornblith-11063_available_what-we-need-to-do-however-is-figure-out_607195.jpg) > [But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views-on-this-are-in-quite-a-number/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/hilary-kornblith-11063_different_but-there-is-no-doubt-that-my-own-views_903301.jpg) > [When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/when-reflection-is-thereby-demystified-i-believe-that-the-temptation/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/hilary-kornblith-11063_animal_when-reflection-is-thereby-demystified-i_566047.jpg) > [By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/by-putting-the-first-person-point-of-view-in-a-naturalistic/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0f/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_by-putting-the-first-person-point-of-vie_424485.jpg) > [In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/in-my-view-since-the-case-can-be-made-that-knowledge-too-is-a-natural/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e23/hilary-kornblith-11063_cases_in-my-view-since-the-case-can-be-made-th_2155541.jpg) > [I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epistemologists-should-concern/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/hilary-kornblith-11063_analogies_i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epist_250792.jpg) > [I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a-tendency-to-present-a-kind-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/hilary-kornblith-11063_acquisition_i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a_1185529.jpg) > [The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acquisition-may-be-unreliable/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/299/hilary-kornblith-11063_achieve_the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acqui_430710.jpg) > [In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-great-deal-more-respect-for-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg) > [I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-contemporary-work-in-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/hilary-kornblith-11063_cognitive_i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-cont_1300772.jpg) > [It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one-might-have-views-about-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg) > [Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-think-that-the-idea-that-we-can/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg) > [Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i-believe-have-a-great-deal-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96b/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i_566744.jpg) > [One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorising-is-to-develop-concepts/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg) > [Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/bealer-argues-that-the-kind-of-naturalistic-view-which-quine-holds/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/hilary-kornblith-11063_ability_bealer-argues-that-the-kind-of-naturalis_2603748.jpg) > [For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/for-one-thing-i-think-that-there-are-questions-which-philosophers/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/hilary-kornblith-11063_bears_for-one-thing-i-think-that-there-are-que_1219039.jpg) > [The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-great-philosophers-of-the-17th-and-18th-centuries-did-not-think/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/295/hilary-kornblith-11063_18th-century_the-great-philosophers-of-the-17th-and-1_2635684.jpg) ## Other authors on Views ## More by Hilary Kornblith > [I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-think-that-when-i-first-suggested-the-idea-that-knowledge-should-be/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-fact-that-these-scientific-theories-have-a-fine-track-record-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epistemologists-should-concern/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-role-of-empirical-work-in-informing-our-philosophical-theories-as/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/here-as-in-so-many-other-cases-however-it-turns-out-that-a-very/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-kind-of-approach-i-take-is-different-from-much-of-experimental/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-fact-that-we-have-been-able-to-develop-a-successful-science-which/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/by-putting-the-first-person-point-of-view-in-a-naturalistic/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acquisition-may-be-unreliable/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/when-i-got-to-college-i-planned-to-be-a-math-major-and-in-addition-to/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/when-reflection-is-thereby-demystified-i-believe-that-the-temptation/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i-believe-have-a-great-deal-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/what-we-need-to-do-however-is-figure-out-what-our-best-available/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-largely-defer-to-the-cognitive-ethologists-i-believe-that-the/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) > [Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/rather-although-belief-may-be-adequate-for-explaining-the-behavior-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/views/hilary-kornblith/#itemlist", "name": "18 Views Quotes By Hilary Kornblith", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of 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The analogy I like to draw here is with our understanding of (other) natural kinds.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epistemologists-should-concern/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/hilary-kornblith-11063_analogies_i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epist_250792.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/hilary-kornblith-11063_analogies_i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epist_250792.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/hilary-kornblith-11063_analogies_i-am-quite-wedded-to-the-view-that-epist_250792.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. 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To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acquisition-may-be-unreliable/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/299/hilary-kornblith-11063_achieve_the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acqui_430710.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/299/hilary-kornblith-11063_achieve_the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acqui_430710.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/299/hilary-kornblith-11063_achieve_the-worry-that-unreflective-belief-acqui_430710.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-great-deal-more-respect-for-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/hilary-kornblith-11063_believe_in-my-view-philosophers-have-shown-a-gre_3128974.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the workings of the mind. It doesn't work the way we pretheoretically think it does. Such an understanding, of course, should have a large effect on one's views in philosophy of mind, but also in epistemology.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-contemporary-work-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/hilary-kornblith-11063_cognitive_i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-cont_1300772.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/hilary-kornblith-11063_cognitive_i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-cont_1300772.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/hilary-kornblith-11063_cognitive_i-do-think-that-an-understanding-of-cont_1300772.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinking about philosophical theorizing makes sense of how philosophy might be a legitimate intellectual activity, in a way that a good deal of the armchair philosophy, I believe, cannot.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one-might-have-views-about-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/hilary-kornblith-11063_activity_it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one_2407707.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-think-that-the-idea-that-we-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_externalists-reject-any-such-view-i-thin_2295807.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Externalists reject any such view. 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On others, it amounts only to the claim that they must be mental features.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i-believe-have-a-great-deal-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96b/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i_566744.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96b/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i_566744.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96b/hilary-kornblith-11063_agents_internalist-approaches-to-epistemology-i_566744.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. 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We want to know what knowledge actually amounts to, not what our folk concept of knowledge is, since, just as with our pretheoretical concept of acidity, it might contain all sorts of misunderstandings and leave out all manner of important things.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorising-is-to-develop-concepts/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/hilary-kornblith-11063_adequate_one-of-the-goals-of-scientific-theorisin_2071130.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims which (many) naturalists wish to make in epistemology. I don't think this is right about Quine, but I'm certain it's not right about my own view. To the extent that I can show that talk of knowledge is firmly rooted within empirical theories where it plays an important explanatory role, I thereby demonstrate its naturalistic credentials.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/bealer-argues-that-the-kind-of-naturalistic-view-which-quine-holds/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/hilary-kornblith-11063_ability_bealer-argues-that-the-kind-of-naturalis_2603748.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/hilary-kornblith-11063_ability_bealer-argues-that-the-kind-of-naturalis_2603748.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/hilary-kornblith-11063_ability_bealer-argues-that-the-kind-of-naturalis_2603748.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. 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