Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistica…

- Hilary Kornblith

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…

- Hilary Kornblith

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…

- Hilary Kornblith

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…

- Hilary Kornblith

I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I thin…

- Hilary Kornblith

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…

- Hilary Kornblith

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…

- Hilary Kornblith

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, …

- Hilary Kornblith

If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, thi…

- Hilary Kornblith