Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply ….
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreemen….
No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretica….
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition is s….
Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned wi….
In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on….
I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the workings of the mind. It d….
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermine….
I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like ….
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliab….
If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of laws of nature, we will n….
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. I….
But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine..
What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise that….
One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should work the ….
I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy..
Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid. After all, they ….
When I first began studying philosophy, a good deal of what went on in analytic epistemology was focused on addressing the Gettier problem. At first,….
In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistem….
I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than someth….
Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've tried to take o….
