Concepts Quote by 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…

— Hilary Kornblith

Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical…

— Ernest Sosa

A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This…

— Alfred Korzybski

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

— Theodore Bikel

What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise…

— Hilary Kornblith

The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works.…

— Hilary Kornblith

“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same…

— Étienne Gilson

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer…

— Gregory Bateson

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

— L.A. Paul

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

— Raymond Smullyan

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

— Ernest Sosa