Naturalistic Epistemology A Symposium of Two Decades

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 appr...

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Other Authors: Shimony, A. (Editor), Nails, Debra (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I / Historical Figures
  • Immanuel Kant and the Greater Glory of Geometry
  • Comment
  • Peirce’s Conception of Truth: A Framework for Naturalistic Epistemology?
  • The Philosophical Significance of Piaget’s Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time
  • Comment
  • Reply
  • Konrad Lorenz as Evolutionary Epistemologist: The Problem of Intentionality
  • Wilfrid Sellars on the Nature of Thought
  • II / The Use of Cognitive Psychology in Epistemology
  • Neurological Embodiments of Belief and the Gaps in the Fit of Phenomena to Noumena
  • Causal Relations in Visual Perception
  • Why Ideas are Not in the Mind: An Introduction to Ecological Epistemology
  • Comment
  • Naturalized Epistemology and the Study of Language
  • Quine on Psychology
  • Comment
  • Comment
  • Integral Epistemology
  • III / Criticisms of Naturalistic Epistemology
  • Naturalistic Epistemology and the Harakiri of Philosophy
  • Comment
  • Comment
  • Naturalistic Epistemology: The Case of Abner Shimony
  • Comment:
  • Epistemology Historicized
  • Comment
  • Index of Names