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Epistemology is related to the natural sciences through the framework of naturalized epistemology, which posits that the study of knowledge is deeply intertwined with empirical scientific inquiry [1]. This connection is further supported by cooperative naturalism, which argues that empirical results from the natural sciences are essential for epistemological investigation [2], and by Quine's proposal to treat epistemology as a chapter of psychology and natural science [3], [4].
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Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
quoteEpistemology, or something like it, simply falls into place as a chapter of psychology and hence of natural science. It studies a natural phenomenon, viz., a physical human subject. This human subject is accorded a certain experimentally controlled input -- certain patterns of irradiation in assorted frequencies, for instance -- and in the fullness of time the subject delivers as output a description of the three-dimensional external world and its history. The relation between the meager input and the torrential output is a relation that we are prompted to study for somewhat the same reasons that always prompted epistemology: namely, in order to see how evidence relates to theory, and in what ways one's theory of nature transcends any available evidence...But a conspicuous difference between old epistemology and the epistemological enterprise in this new psychological setting is that we can now make free use of empirical psychology.
claimWillard Van Orman Quine proposed that epistemology should be treated as a chapter of psychology and natural science, focusing on the psychological processes that transform sensory stimulations into beliefs about the world.
Naturalized epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimCooperative naturalism is a philosophical view that holds that empirical results from the natural sciences are essential and useful to epistemology, asserting that traditional epistemology cannot succeed in its investigation of knowledge without these results.
Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimNaturalized epistemology is defined as a cluster of views asserting that epistemology is closely connected to natural science.