
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.
This collection investigates whether epistemology can be effectively reconstructed as an explanatory project grounded in the cognitive sciences rather than traditional conceptual analysis. Hilary Kornblith, a prominent philosopher, compiles his influential papers to argue that knowledge acquisition is best understood through empirical inquiry. He challenges traditional philosophical frameworks by demonstrating how scientific data regarding human cognition provides a more robust foundation for understanding epistemic normativity and justification.
What You Will Find
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Experts recognize this volume as a significant contribution to the naturalistic turn in contemporary epistemology. Readers frequently note the high level of academic density and the rigorous argumentative style characteristic of Kornblith's work.
Page Count:
256
Publication Date:
2014-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
ISBN-10:
0191021199
ISBN-13:
9780191021190
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