I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this… — Hilary Kornblith Crazy 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
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 role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better… — Hilary Kornblith Concepts 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 Armchairs 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
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations,… — Hilary Kornblith Able 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 Believe 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 Achieve 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 Chance 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
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which… — Hilary Kornblith Agents Copy Share Image
What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while… — Hilary Kornblith Available 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
Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave… — Hilary Kornblith Adequate 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 Concepts 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 Accounts 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 Different 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
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
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 Chapters 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 Kind 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
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
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
