Naturalized Epistemology and the Genealogy of Knowledge

Hilary Kornblith’s naturalised epistemology centrally involves the thesis that knowledge is a natural kind like water or aluminium. In his most recent work, Kornblith seeks to defend this thesis by attacking what he perceives to be the central alternative

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Martin Lenz Anik Waldow Editors

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy Nature and Norms in Thought

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy

STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 29

General Editor: STEPHEN GAUKROGER, University of Sydney

Editorial Advisory Board: RACHEL ANKENY, University of Adelaide PETER ANSTEY, University of Otago STEVEN FRENCH, University of Leeds KOEN VERMEIR, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven OFER GAL, University of Sydney JOHN SCHUSTER, University of New South Wales RICHARD YEO, Griffith University

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Martin Lenz • Anik Waldow Editors

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy Nature and Norms in Thought

Editors Martin Lenz University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands

Anik Waldow Department of Philosophy University of Sydney Sydney, NSW Australia

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Preface

The opposition between the natural and normative provides us with important philosophical d