Knowledge and Its Place in Nature

Knowledge and Its Place in Nature
Author: Hilary Kornblith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2002-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199246319

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Philosophers 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 ethologists not only attribute intentional states to non-human animals, they also speak of such animals as having knowledge; and this talk of knowledge does causal and explanatory work withintheir theories. The account of knowledge which emerges from this literature is a version of reliabilism: knowledge is reliably produced true belief.This account of knowledge is not meant merely to provide an elucidation of an important scientific category. Rather, Kornblith argues that knowledge, in this very sense, is what philosophers have been talking about all along. Rival accounts are examined in detail and it is argued that they are inadequate to the phenomenon of knowledge (even of human knowledge).One traditional objection to this sort of naturalistic approach to epistemology is that, in providing a descriptive account of the nature of important epistemic categories, it must inevitably deprive these categories of their normative force. But Kornblith argues that a proper account of epistemic normativity flows directly from the account of knowledge which is found in cognitive ethology. Knowledge may be properly understood as a real feature of the world which makes normative demands uponus.This controversial and refreshingly original book offers philosophers a new way to do epistemology.


Knowledge and Its Place in Nature
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Hilary Kornblith
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of know
Knowledge and its Place in Nature
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Hilary Kornblith
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-01 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of know
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Pages: 779
Authors: Adrian Johns
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many are
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Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Hilary Kornblith
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This volume collects thirteen papers by Hilary Kornblith on the theme of naturalistic epistemology. These papers present Kornblith's own version of a naturalist
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Language: en
Pages: 685
Authors: C.D. Broad
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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