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
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 Categories 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 Accounts 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
I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made… — Hilary Kornblith Contrary 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 Cases 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 Areas 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
If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of… — Hilary Kornblith Appeals 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 Another way 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 Acid 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 18th century 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 17th century 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 Armstrong 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 Acid 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be… — Hilary Kornblith Experimental 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 Accounts 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 Adequate 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 Adequate 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
