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Theories of Knowledge : Is a naturalised epistemology bound to leave unanswered some important epistemological questions?

Lukas Graf

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For Quine epistemology as it is traditionally approached in philosophy is mistaken because it is based on the untenable concept of foundationalism. However, Quine’s contribution to epistemology is not merely a destructive one; he comes up with a new theory. Anyone assessing this theory, naturalised epistemology, ultimately wants to know whether it provides an answer to the central questions of epistemology. In this paper it is dis­cussed whether naturalised epistemology is bound to leave some of these questions unanswered.

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For Quine epistemology as it is traditionally approached in philosophy is mistaken because it is based on the untenable concept of foundationalism. However, Quine’s contribution to epistemology is not merely a destructive one; he comes up with a new theory. Anyone assessing this theory, naturalised epistemology, ultimately wants to know whether it provides an answer to the central questions of epistemology. In this paper it is dis­cussed whether naturalised epistemology is bound to leave some of these questions unanswered.

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For Quine epistemology as it is traditionally approached in philosophy is mistaken because it is based on the untenable concept of foundationalism. However, Quine’s contribution to epistemology is not merely a destructive one; he comes up with a new theory. Anyone assessing this theory, naturalised epistemology, ultimately wants to know whether it provides an answer to the central questions of epistemology. In this paper it is dis­cussed whether naturalised epistemology is bound to leave some of these questions unanswered.

Key concepts: Foundationalism, Quine, Epistemology, Epistemology of Wikipedia, Formal epistemology, Meta-epistemology, Social epistemology, Philosophy

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