Agents Quote by Hilary Kornblith

Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief…

— Hilary Kornblith

I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and armchair approaches. Some ways…

— Hilary Kornblith

“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs…

— Carl Sagan

The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my…

— Hilary Kornblith

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of…

— William Whewell

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

— David Hawkins

“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their capacity to…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they cannot alone…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.”

— Michael E Emmering

It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects…

— Evelyn Underhill

“When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach…

— Felix Frankfurter