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200Naturalizing Epistemology (edited book)Mass.: Mit Press. 1985.explores the interaction between psychology and epistemology and addresses empirical questions about how we should arrive at our beliefs, and whether the processes by which we arrive at our beliefs are the ones by which we ought to arrive at our beliefs
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51Roderick Chisholm and The Shaping of American EpistemologyMetaphilosophy 34 (5): 582-602. 2003.Roderick Chisholm had a profound effect on the shape of American epistemology. In this article, I not only give an account of the large‐scale structure of Chisholm's views but also say something about the place of Chisholmian themes in contemporary work. I thus present an understanding and an appreciation of Chisholm's contribution to epistemology by exhibiting a number of alternative developments of Chisholmian ideas that are currently under discussion.
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45In Defense of a Naturalized EpistemologyIn John Greco & Ernest Sosa (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, Blackwell. 2017.Naturalism in philosophy has a long and distinguished heritage. This is no less true in epistemology than it is in other areas of philosophy. At the same time, epistemology in the English speaking world in the first half of die twentieth century was dominated by an approach quite hostile to naturalism. Now, at the close of the twentieth century, naturalism is resurgent.
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6The epistemology of science and the epistemology of everyday lifeFacta Philosophica 1 (1999): 21-37. 1999.
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63Ever Since DescartesThe Monist 68 (2): 264-276. 1985.Epistemology has changed dramatically since Descartes, but many of the questions epistemologists address today are no different from the questions Descartes addressed. I begin by raising four sets of questions with which Descartes concerned himself, and explain briefly why Descartes regarded these sets of questions as interchangeable. My main purpose, however, is not historical. Rather, I wish to present an outline of a naturalistic approach to these questions. I will not defend naturalistic epi…Read more
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8Contemporary Theories of Knowledge" by John Pollock (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (1): 167. 1988.
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20Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive MaterialismPhilosophical Review 88 (1): 109. 1979.
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23A Naturalistic Epistemology: Selected PapersOxford University Press. 2014.This volume draws together influential work by Hilary Kornblith on naturalistic epistemology. This approach sees epistemology not as conceptual analysis, but as an explanatory project constrained and informed by work in cognitive science. These essays expound and defend Kornblith's distinctive view of how we come to have knowledge of the world.
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10La evasión contextualista de la epistemologíaTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 19 (3): 33-40. 2000.
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318What reflective endorsement cannot doPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 80 (1): 1-19. 2009.We sometimes stop to reflect on our mental states, and such reflection can lead, at times, to changing our minds. It can, as well, lead us to endorse the very attitudes which we previously held. Such reflective endorsement has been called upon to play a wide range of roles in philosophical theorizing. It has been thought to ground a distinction between two fundamentally different kinds of knowledge: reflective knowledge and mere animal knowledge. It has been thought to serve as a ground for …Read more
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29How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism (review)Isis 94 791-792. 2003.
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77Social Prerequisites for the Proper Function of Individual ReasonEpisteme 1 (3): 169-176. 2005.Human beings form beliefs by way of a variety of psychological processes. Some of these processes of belief acquisition are innate; others are acquired. A good deal of interesting work has been done in assessing the reliability of these processes. Any such assessment must examine not only features intrinsic to the psychological processes themselves, but also features of the environments in which those processes are exercised; a mechanism which is reliable in one sort of environment may be quite …Read more
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299Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2001.This anthology brings together ten papers which have defined and advanced the debate between internalism and externalism in epistemology
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11Belief in the Face of ControversyIn Richard Feldman & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), Disagreement, Oxford University Press. 2010.We often find that beliefs we hold are in conflict with the beliefs of epistemic peers, individuals who are just as intelligent, just as well-informed, and just as scrupulous in forming their beliefs as we are. Is it permissible to maintain our beliefs in the face of such disagreement? It is argued here that continued belief in these circumstances is not epistemically permissible, and that this has striking consequences for the practice of philosophy: we cannot reasonably hold on to our philos…Read more
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38. naturalistic epistemology and its criticsIn Steven Luper (ed.), Essential Knowledge: Readings in Epistemology, Longman. pp. 383. 2003.
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365Knowledge in humans and other animalsPhilosophical Perspectives 13 327-346. 1999.This paper defends an approach to epistemology which treats the study of knowledge as on a par with the study of natural kinds. Knowledge is seen as a natural phenomenon subject to empirical investigation. In particular, it is argued that work in cognitive ethology is relevant to understanding the nature of knowledge, and that this approach sheds light on traditional philosophical questions about knowledge, including questions about the source of epistemic normativity.
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77The impurity of reasonPacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (1). 2000.Laurence BonJour has defended the view that we have an a priori intellectual capacity to understand the nature of proper reason. This view is critically examined in detail and a naturalistic alternative is proposed and defended according to which our understanding of proper reasoning requires a posteriori support.
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59How central are judgment and agency to epistemology?Philosophical Studies 174 (10): 2585-2597. 2017.Ernest Sosa’s Judgment and Agency marks an important change from his earlier work in epistemology. While belief was at the center of his earlier approach to epistemological issues, a far more sophisticated mental state, judgment, plays the central role here. This paper examines the significance of this change in focus, and argues that there is reason to favor the earlier belief-centered approach over this new judgment-centered account.