Righting Epistemology: Hume's Revolution

New York: Oup Usa (2017)
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Righting Epistemology defends an unrecognized Humean conception of epistemic justification, showing that he is no skeptic, and an argument of his that refutes all extant alternative conceptions. It goes on to trace the development of his thought in Sir Karl Popper, Nelson Goodman, W. V. Quine and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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W. V. Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized”

The publication of Quine’s essay “Epistemology Naturalized” in 1972 was disastrous for the world’s understanding of his epistemology. The deep misunderstanding it gave rise to is nearly universal, and has inspired something called naturalized epistemology, which is completely antithetical ... see more

Willard van Orman Quine

In this chapter the author corrects other misunderstandings of Quine’s epistemology and focuses on five of Quine’s conceptions. The first is the roles of our sensory experiences, our observations and the stimulations of our sensory organs in our cognitive economies. The second is the natur... see more

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Epistemology Naturalized.W. V. Quine - 1969 - In Willard van Orman Quine (ed.), Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. Columbia University Press.
Two Dogmas of Empiricism.W. V. O. Quine - 1951 - In Robert B. Talisse & Scott F. Aikin (eds.), The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce Through the Present. Princeton University Press. pp. 202-220.
The nature of natural knowledge.Willard V. Quine - 1975 - In Samuel D. Guttenplan (ed.), Mind and Language. Clarendon Press. pp. 1975--67.
The problem of induction.John Vickers - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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