I've been reading an anthology called Naturalizing Epistemology (1986) edited by Hilary Kornblith.
"Naturalizing" epistemology has been heavily identified with W.V.O.
Quine (author of the 2 first articles in Naturalizing Epistemology).
Others draw parallels between naturalized epistemology and the much
earlier philosophy of pragmatism, or John Dewey in particular, as in
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Vol. 32, No. 4, Fall,
1996, "Dewey, Quine, and Pragmatic Naturalized Epistemology". Or see
Stich 1993 "Naturalizing Epistemology: Quine, Simon and the Prospects
for Pragmatism". The title alludes to Herb Simon, the Nobel Laureate (Economics), Turing Prize winner, cognitive psychologist, AI pioneer, etc.
Naturalized epistemology, like many other intellectual approaches has a strong and a weak program, or position. The strong
might be represented by Quine's "Why not settle for psychology".
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Kornblith (ed) Naturalizing Epistemology, and Stich: "Naturalizing Epistemology: Quine, Simon and the Prospects for Pragmatism"
I've been dabbling more and more in academic philosophy, specifically epistemology, some of which seems like it might have some use to the world. In my 62 years, I've never been much drawn to people calling themselves philosophers, but one day many years ago, it occurred to me that, in what I was calling a "Truth Project", I was trying to do "practical epistemology" (for some idea of "Impractical epistemology" see NOTE 1 below).
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