Webepistemologists when “Epistemology Naturalized” was first published. We are tempted to respond: of course we can’t define physical concepts in terms of sense-data; of course observation “underdetermines” theory. That is why observation is observation and not theory. So it is agreed on all hands that the classical epistemological project,

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WebEPISTEMIC PRIORITY, ANALYTIC TRUTH, AND NATURALIZED EPISTEMOLOGY 3 priority for the sentences it holds to be in fact the repository of evidence for science, whether it initially determines this evidence introspectively or behavioristically. From this perspective, rational reconstruction seems reduced to the status of an intellectual exercise WebAbstract. This paper analyzes and evaluates quine's influential thesis that epistemology should become a chapter of empirical psychology. quine's main point, it is argued, is that normativity must be banished from epistemology and, more generally, philosophy. i claim that without a normative concept of justification, we lose the very concept of ... ourcatherder.com

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