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CRITICAL NOTICE OF HILARY KORNBLITH'S ON REFLECTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2013

Joel Pust
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Abstract

Hilary Kornblith's On Reflection is a sustained and detailed criticism of philosophical appeals to reflection. Kornblith argues, on both conceptual and empirical grounds, that a large number of appeals to reflective belief and desire in philosophical theorizing about knowledge and justification, reasoning, free will and normativity are deeply flawed. In this paper, I discuss Kornblith's arguments, finding some quite compelling and some wanting. Moreover, I argue that an important ambiguity about the nature of reflection renders the book less clear than it ought to be and undermines some of the book's criticisms.

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Episteme , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 53 - 61
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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