Reflections on Cognitive and Epistemic Diversity: Can a Stich in Time Save Quine?

In Dominic Murphy & Michael A. Bishop (eds.), Stich and His Critics. Wiley-Blackwell (2009)
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In “Epistemology Naturalized” Quine famously suggests that epistemology, properly understood, “simply falls into place as a chapter of psychology and hence of natural science” (1969, 82). Since the appearance of Quine’s seminal article, virtually every epistemologist, including the later Quine (1986, 664), has repudiated the idea that a normative discipline like epistemology could be reduced to a purely descriptive discipline like psychology. Working epistemologists no longer take Quine’s vision in “Epistemology Naturalized” seriously. In this paper, I will explain why I think this is a mistake.

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