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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
