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Naturalistic Epistemology

A Symposium of Two Decades

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Abner Shimony

    1. Boston University, USA

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  2. Debra Nails

    1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 100)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Abner Shimony
      Pages 1-13

  3. Historical Figures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Immanuel Kant and the Greater Glory of Geometry

      • Judson Webb
      Pages 17-70

    3. Comment on Webb

      • Abner Shimony
      Pages 71-72

    4. Peirce’s Conception of Truth: A Framework for Naturalistic Epistemology?

      • Peter Skagestad
      Pages 73-90

    5. The Philosophical Significance of Piaget’s Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 91-111

    6. Comment on Čapek

      • Abner Shimony
      Pages 112-114

    7. Reply to Shimony

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 115-118

    8. Konrad Lorenz as Evolutionary Epistemologist: The Problem of Intentionality

      • Theodora J. Kalikow
      Pages 119-144

    9. Wilfrid Sellars on the Nature of Thought

      • William A. Rottschaefer
      Pages 145-161

  4. The Use of Cognitive Psychology in Epistemology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Neurological Embodiments of Belief and the Gaps in the Fit of Phenomena to Noumena

      • Donald T. Campbell
      Pages 165-192

    3. Causal Relations in Visual Perception

      • John Heffner
      Pages 193-214

    4. Why Ideas are Not in the Mind: An Introduction to Ecological Epistemology

      • Edward S. Reed
      Pages 215-229

    5. Comment on Reed

      • Abner Shimony
      Pages 230-234

    6. Naturalized Epistemology and the Study of Language

      • Louise M. Antony
      Pages 235-257

    7. Quine on Psychology

      • Joseph Levine
      Pages 259-290

    8. Comment on Levine

      • Abner Shimony
      Pages 291-294

    9. Comment on Levine

      • Joseph Agassi
      Pages 295-298
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Boston University, USA

    Abner Shimony

  • University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Debra Nails

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Naturalistic Epistemology

  • Book Subtitle: A Symposium of Two Decades

  • Editors: Abner Shimony, Debra Nails

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3735-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2337-6Published: 31 March 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8168-9Published: 12 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3735-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 388

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Psycholinguistics, Philosophy of Biology

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