By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

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.

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.

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.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

To a great mind, nothing is little.

Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.