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Traditional epistemology is fundamentally defined by its focus on analyzing the nature, conditions, and justification of knowledge, as evidenced by its reliance on intuition-based inquiry [1], its prioritization of defining the conditions for knowing propositions [2], and its core objective of assessing the epistemic quality of beliefs to determine if they constitute knowledge [3].
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Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 8 facts
claimJaegwon Kim argues that Willard Van Orman Quine's naturalized epistemology studies a different topic than traditional epistemology, specifically shifting focus from questions of rationality, justification, and knowledge to the causal connections between sensory evidence and beliefs.
claimTraditional epistemologists often investigate whether specific domains of knowledge, such as other minds, morality, or religious matters, are justified based on the basic evidence available.
claimSome traditional epistemologists operate on the assumption that humans possess knowledge and that empirical information cannot overturn this judgment, asserting that humans know approximately what they believe they know.
claimTraditional epistemologists debate whether knowledge and justification require conclusive reasons, strong reasons, or if they rely on factors like reliability, causal connectedness, explanatory power, or wide acceptance.
claimSkeptical arguments considered by traditional epistemologists typically rely on premises that specify a necessary condition for knowledge and premises that assert people's beliefs fail to satisfy that condition.
claimTraditional epistemologists may only be committed to the modest claim that no abstract philosophical argument is initially more plausible than the claim that humans possess knowledge in typical actual cases, rather than the extreme claim that empirical results could never show a lack of knowledge.
procedureTraditional epistemological inquiry typically relies on the method of reflection on possible cases, where epistemologists describe cases, consult their intuitions about whether the cases constitute knowledge, and decide if the proposed analysis fails based on those intuitions.
claimThe position held by many traditional epistemologists, which assumes that we know what we think we know, does not necessarily rule out the possibility that empirical results could overturn specific claims to knowledge.
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimTraditional epistemology focuses on assessing the epistemic quality of a subject's beliefs to determine if they are justified or instances of knowledge.
perspectiveProponents of the view that social epistemology is an extension of traditional epistemology believe that knowledge and justified belief are linked to truth and that objective norms of rationality exist.
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimJonathan Kvanvig characterizes traditional epistemology as being dominated by an 'individualistic' and 'synchronic' conception of knowledge that prioritizes specifying the conditions under which an individual knows a particular proposition at a particular time.