A naturalistic epistemology : selected papers / Hilary Kornblith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kornblith, Hilary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Naturalism.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press 2014.

Summary:

This 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 defend Kornblith's distinctive view of how we come to have knowledge of the world. He offers critical discussion of alternative approaches, such as foundationalism, the coherence theory of justification, internalism, and externalism; and he discusses social epistemology, the role of intuitions in philosophical theorizing, epistemic normativity, and the ways in which philosophical theories may be informed by empirical considerations. Kornblith aims to show how an epistemology which is based in the sciences of cognition may provide the understanding and intellectual illumination which has always been the goal of philosophical theorizing.

Contents:

1 Beyond Foundationalism and the Coherence Theory 17

2 Justified Belief and Epistemically Responsible Action 32

3 How Internal Can You Get? 46

4 The Unattainability of Coherence 60

5 Epistemic Normativity 71

6 A Conservative Approach to Social Epistemology 88

7 Naturalism: Both Metaphysical and Epistemological 104

8 Knowledge in Humans and Other Animals 119

9 Does Reliabilism Make Knowledge Merely Conditional? 142

10 Naturalism and Intuitions 158

11 A Reliabilist Solution to the Problem of Promiscuous Bootstrapping 178

12 Why Should We Care about the Concept of Knowledge? 183

13 Reasons, Naturalism, and Transcendental Philosophy 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198712459

0198712456

OCLC:

882899288