A Naturalistic Epistemology (Inbunden)
avHilary Kornblith
ISBN: 9780198712459 - UTGIVEN: 2015-02This volume draws together influential work by Hilary Kornblith on naturalistic epistemology. The naturalistic approach sees epistemology not as a matter of analysis of concepts, but as an explanatory project constrained and informed by work in the cognitive sciences. These essays expound and defen[...]
Knowledge and its Place in Nature (Häftad)
avHilary Kornblith
ISBN: 9780199246328 - UTGIVEN: 200410Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of knowledge that we should be investigating, but knowledge itself, a robust natural phenomenon, suitable for scientific study. Cognitive ethologis[...]
On Reflection (Inbunden)
avHilary Kornblith
ISBN: 9780199563005 - UTGIVEN: 201209Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of reflection, and its importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity. Philosophers have frequently extolled the value of reflective self-examination, and a wide range of philosophers, who differ on many other things, have argued that reflection[...]
Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground (Häftad)
avHilary Kornblith
ISBN: 9780262611169 - UTGIVEN: 1995-11Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world. Kornblith begins by de[...]
