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 Answers 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 Available 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 Activity 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 Agents 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 Armchairs Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many… — Hilary Kornblith Career 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
Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and… — Hilary Kornblith Animal 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
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 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
I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the… — Hilary Kornblith Cognitive 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 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
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 Acid 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
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
I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not… — Hilary Kornblith Agree Copy Share Image
