I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not legitimate. As I see it, ….
I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I thin….
What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which w….
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the real….
The idea that we should check on our unreflective belief acquisition sounds great, but we need to know whether the processes of reflection which we p….
If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, thi….
For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus o….
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, a….
Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistica….
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can ….
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims which (many) naturalists ….
When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite b….
When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but also….
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a….
I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of pr….
What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees cognitive eth….
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works….
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I d….
When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constr….
The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which….
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 of forming ….
