Virtue Epistemology Naturalized

Virtue Epistemology Naturalized
Title Virtue Epistemology Naturalized PDF eBook
Author Abrol Fairweather
Publisher Springer
Pages 353
Release 2014-05-27
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3319046721

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This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are: empirically informed theories of epistemic virtue; virtue theoretic solutions to under determination; epistemic virtues in the history of science; and the value of understanding. Virtue epistemology has opened many new areas of inquiry in contemporary epistemology including: epistemic agency, the role of motivations and emotions in epistemology, the nature of abilities, skills and competences, wisdom and curiosity. Value driven epistemic inquiry has become quite complex and there is a need for a responsible and rigorous process of constructing naturalized theories of epistemic virtue. This volume makes the involvement of the sciences more explicit and looks at the empirical aspect of virtue epistemology. Concerns about virtue epistemology are considered in the essays contained here, including the question: can any virtue epistemology meet both the normativity constraint and the empirical constraint? The volume suggests that these worries should not be seen as impediments but rather as useful constraints and desiderata to guide the construction of naturalized theories of epistemic virtue.

Scientific Ontology

Scientific Ontology
Title Scientific Ontology PDF eBook
Author Anjan Chakravartty
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 297
Release 2017
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0190651458

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Though science and philosophy take different approaches to ontology, metaphysical inferences are relevant to interpreting scientific work, and empirical investigations are relevant to philosophy. This book argues that there is no uniquely rational way to determine which domains of ontology are appropriate for belief, making room for choice in a transformative account of scientific ontology.

Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Title Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science PDF eBook
Author Chienkuo Mi
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 198
Release 2007
Genre Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN 9042021985

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Much has happened in the field of contemporary epistemology since Quine's Epistemology Naturalized was published in 1969. Even before Ronald Giere published his article Philosophy of Science Naturalized, naturalized philosophy of science had been influenced by the so-called historical approach. Kuhm, Lakatos, Feyerabend and Laudan all contributed importantly to this trend. In this light it has emerged, without a doubt, that philosophy of science is closely related to epistemology. This volume explores some of the relevant relations and will be of interest to epistemologist and philosophers of science.

Naturalistic Epistemology

Naturalistic Epistemology
Title Naturalistic Epistemology PDF eBook
Author A. Shimony
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 406
Release 1987-03-31
Genre Science
ISBN 9789027723376

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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.

Quine's Naturalism

Quine's Naturalism
Title Quine's Naturalism PDF eBook
Author Paul A. Gregory
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 204
Release 2011-11-03
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1441101489

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W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that empirical science is our best avenue to knowledge. His views, however, have not been well understood. Critics charge that Quine's naturalized epistemology is circular and that it cannot be normative. Yet, such criticisms stem from a cluster of fundamental traditional assumptions regarding language, theory, and the knowing subject - the very presuppositions that Quine is at pains to reject. Through investigation of Quine's views regarding language, knowledge, and reality, the author offers a new interpretation of Quine's naturalism. The naturalism/anti-naturalism debate can be advanced only by acknowledging and critiquing the substantial theoretical commitments implicit in the traditional view. Gregory argues that the responses to the circularity and non-normativity objections do just that. His analysis further reveals that Quine's departure from the tradition penetrates the conception of the knowing subject, and he thus offers a new and engaging defence of Quine's naturalism.

Naturalizing Epistemology

Naturalizing Epistemology
Title Naturalizing Epistemology PDF eBook
Author Hilary Kornblith
Publisher Bradford Books
Pages 478
Release 1994-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780262610902

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explores the interaction between psychology and epistemology and addresses empirical questions about how we should arrive at our beliefs, and whether the processes by which we arrive at our beliefs are the ones by which we ought to arrive at our beliefs

Hume's Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized Epistemology

Hume's Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized Epistemology
Title Hume's Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized Epistemology PDF eBook
Author K. Meeker
Publisher Springer
Pages 342
Release 2013-05-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1137025557

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Treating David Hume as a partner in a continuing philosophical dialogue, this book tries to come to terms with Hume's influential thoughts on scepticism and naturalism in a way that sheds light on contemporary philosophy and its relationship to science.