Analogies Quote by Hilary Kornblith

Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various…

— Hilary Kornblith

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

— Theodore Bikel

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

— Ernest Sosa

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished…

— Hilary Kornblith

One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should…

— Hilary Kornblith

“Second, when one tries to formulate a definition of knowledge or, more generally, when one investigates matters in epistemology, one does not start with…

— J.P. Moreland

“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge,…

— Michel Foucault

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

Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with…

— Jurgen Habermas

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

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have…

— Hilary Kornblith

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your…

— RZA