Hilary Kornblith Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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 it gives us a better view of knowledge, and the mind, and so on.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophical, Views, Giving

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I think that it would be a terrible mistake to give up on addressing normative questions in epistemology.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Giving Up, Mistake, Believe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• 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 the work of those moral realists who have tried to give naturalistic accounts of human flourishing, and who offer accounts of right action in such terms. (I suppose this is more evidence that I really do have deep affinities with Aristotle!)

  Hilary Kornblith

  Real, Philosophical, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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