“The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works. Those philosophers took a stand on all sorts of questions which nowadays we would classify as questions of psychology, and their views about psychological questions shaped their views about epistemology, as well they should have.” ThinkingShouldMindWellsViewsPsychologyCenturyShould HavePhilosopherPsychologicalEpistemology18th CenturyGreat Philosophers Author:Hilary Kornblith
“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 best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.” YearsWellsLooksTodayCoursesDoubtPsychologyPositionTheoryAvailableNo DoubtComparisonRejectsPrimitiveEpistemology Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.” WayNeedsMindStillsReasonPhilosophyActionTogetherLanguageViewsBrainIssuesPsychologyTheoryApproachPhilosophicalIncludingVariousTraditionalRelevantFormalMetaphysicsConsensusCognitiveEpistemologyCognitive ScienceComplementaryArmchairsUnanimityBrain Science Author:Ernest Sosa
“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.” InspirationalChildrenChanceEducationStudyPsychologyDevelopmentMathematicalLogicalEpistemologyChild Development Book:Dialogue with Jean Piaget Source: Dialogue with Jean Piaget
“Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.” TakenPsychologyAccountsStructureMathematicalLogicalLinguisticsEpistemology Author:Jean Piaget
“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.” MadeProblemLevelsViewsPsychologyHigherPoint Of ViewTransitionJudgedEpistemology Author:Jean Piaget
“In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.” PsychologyAbsolutesEpistemologyDevelopmental Author:Jean Piaget
“We cannot know the truth but we can pretend that we know. And this is lying. Lying fills all our life. People pretend that they know all sorts of things: about God, about the future life, about the universe, about the origin of man, about evolution, about everything; but in reality they do not know anything, even about themselves. And every time they speak about something they do not know as though they knew it, they lie.” PsychologyIgnoranceLiesEpistemology Book:The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution Source: The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution