KORNBLITH, Hilary (Stuart) 1954-

PERSONAL:

Born November 3, 1954, in New York, NY; son of Borris (a physician) and Gertrude (a nurse; maiden name, Chizik) Kornblith; married Robin Harris (a social worker), October 12, 1980; children: Benjamin, Andrea. Education: State University of New York—Buffalo, B.A., 1975; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1980.

ADDRESSES:

Home—R.R.1, Box 79-5, Richmond, VT 05477. Office—Department of Philosophy, University of Vermont, 70 South Williams St., Burlington, VT 05401. E-mail—hkornbli@zoo.uvm.edu.

CAREER:

University of Vermont, Burlington, professor of philosophy and department chair, 1979—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984-85.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Naturalizing Epistemology, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 1985, 2nd edition, 1994.

Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground: An Essay in Naturalistic Epistemology, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 1993.

(Editor) Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism, Blackwell Publishers (Malden, MA), 2001.

Knowledge and Its Place in Nature, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Contributor to books, including The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, edited by J. Greco and E. Sosa, Blackwell Publishers (Malden, MA), 1998; Rethinking Intuition: The Psychology of Intuition and Its Role in Philosophical Inquiry, edited by Michael DePaul and William Ramsey, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1998; Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility, edited by A. Fairweather and L. Zagzebski, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001; and The Externalist Challenge: New Studies on Cognition and Intentionality, edited by R. Schantz, de Gruyter. Contributor to periodicals, including Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Perspectives, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Issues, and Midwest Studies in Philosophy.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, January, 1994, review of Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground: An Essay in Naturalistic Epistemology, p. 802.

Mind, January, 1995, C. A. Hooker, review of Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground, p. 171.

ONLINE

University of Vermont Web Site: Hilary Kornblith Home Page,http://www.uvm.edu/ (November 17, 2004).*