What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds.

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.