Naturalistic epistemology : a symposium of two decades
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Naturalistic epistemology : a symposium of two decades
(Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 100)
D. Reidel Pub. Co. , Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic, c1987
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1. AIMS OF THE INTRODUCTION The systematic assessment of claims to knowledge is the central task of epistemology. According to naturalistic epistemologists, this task cannot be well performed unless proper attention is paid to the place of the knowing subject in nature. All philosophers who can appropriately be called 'naturalistic epistemologists' subscribe to two theses: (a) human beings, including their cognitive faculties, are entities in nature, inter acting with other entities studied by the natural sciences; and (b) the results of natural scientific investigations of human beings, particularly of biology and empirical psychology, are relevant and probably crucial to the epistemological enterprise. Naturalistic epistemologists differ in their explications of theses (a) and (b) and also in their conceptions of the proper admixture of other components needed for an adequate treatment of human knowledg- e.g., linguistic analysis, logic, decision theory, and theory of value. Those contributors to this volume who consider themselves to be naturalistic epistemologists (the majority) differ greatly in these respects. It is not my intention in this introduction to give a taxonomy of naturalistic epistemologies. I intend only to provide an overview which will stimulate a critical reading of the articles in the body of this volume, by facilitating a recognition of the authors' assumptions, emphases, and omissions.
Table of Contents
I / Historical Figures.- Immanuel Kant and the Greater Glory of Geometry.- Comment.- Peirce's Conception of Truth: A Framework for Naturalistic Epistemology?.- The Philosophical Significance of Piaget's Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time.- Comment.- Reply.- Konrad Lorenz as Evolutionary Epistemologist: The Problem of Intentionality.- Wilfrid Sellars on the Nature of Thought.- II / The Use of Cognitive Psychology in Epistemology.- Neurological Embodiments of Belief and the Gaps in the Fit of Phenomena to Noumena.- Causal Relations in Visual Perception.- Why Ideas are Not in the Mind: An Introduction to Ecological Epistemology.- Comment.- Naturalized Epistemology and the Study of Language.- Quine on Psychology.- Comment.- Comment.- Integral Epistemology.- III / Criticisms of Naturalistic Epistemology.- Naturalistic Epistemology and the Harakiri of Philosophy.- Comment.- Comment.- Naturalistic Epistemology: The Case of Abner Shimony.- Comment:.- Epistemology Historicized.- Comment.- Index of Names.
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