I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some real sympathy with t….

The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of our folk concepts, but that….

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted b….

It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinki….

Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways i….

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time..

Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some of the experi….

The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas….

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a na….

Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differentl….

17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psycholo….

So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the be….

I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many ways I had little idea of what such a l….

No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing bu….

I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made sense of in naturalistic terms. There is….

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the exi….

The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say tha….

There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of phil….

I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge might play an i….