Naturalized epistemology

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Naturalized epistemology is a philosophical term that encompasses a variety of epistemological theories varying in extremity. At their root they all have one common thread, namely the involvement of empirical science in epistemology in rejection of a priori principles. At its most moderate end, the general thesis is that epistemology can benefit in its inquiry by using the knowledge we have gained from the cognitive sciences. More extreme theories involve the belief that traditional epistemology should be abandoned and turned over to the natural sciences. Naturalized epistemology is opposed to the anti-psychologism of Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gottlob Frege, and others.

[edit] See also

• Evolutionary epistemology
• Foundherentism
• Paul Churchland
• Susan Haack
• W.V.O. Quine
• Stephen Stich

[edit] Sources & External links

• The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Epistemology
• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Naturalized Epistemology
• The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy ISBN 0-14-051250-0