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Epistemology and psychology are related through the debate over naturalism, where figures like W.V.O. Quine argue that epistemology should be treated as a chapter of psychology [1], [2], [3], [4]. While some perspectives suggest epistemology collapses into psychology [5], others distinguish them by noting that psychology is descriptive regarding belief acquisition [6], [7], [8] while epistemology focuses on normative evaluation [9], [6], [7].
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Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 5 facts
claimThe relevance of empirical work in psychology and biology to epistemology depends on whether epistemology is defined broadly as the study of human knowledge or narrowly as the study of specifically philosophical questions about knowledge.
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.
claimCooperative Naturalism is a philosophical view which holds that while evaluative questions exist in epistemology, empirical results from psychology concerning how humans think and reason are essential or useful for making progress in addressing those questions.
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.
claimThe Quinean view that epistemology should be abandoned in favor of psychology is not widely accepted by contemporary naturalists in epistemology, as noted by Almeder (1998), BonJour (1994), Foley (1994), and Fumerton (1994).
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 5 facts
claimPsychology and cognitive sociology study the beliefs people actually have and how they acquire them, whereas epistemology examines the evaluative norms of these processes.
claimPsychology describes what beliefs people have and how they acquire them, whereas the focus of epistemology is on evaluating beliefs to judge whether they are justified and rational.
claimEpistemology and psychology were not defined as distinct fields until the 19th century.
claimEpistemology is a normative discipline, whereas psychology and cognitive sociology are descriptive disciplines.
claimEpistemology is closely related to psychology, which infers the beliefs people hold from their words and actions, while epistemology studies the norms governing the evaluation of beliefs.
Naturalistic Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 3 facts
claimIn the essay 'Epistemology Naturalized,' W.V. Quine argues for conceiving epistemology as a 'chapter of psychology,' and for seeing epistemology and empirical science as containing and constraining one another.
claimW.V.O. Quine's naturalistic epistemology posits that epistemology is contained within psychology as a subdiscipline.
perspectiveW.V. Quine regards epistemology as a chapter of psychology.
Virtue Epistemology, Anyone? - The Philosophers' Magazine - philosophersmag.com 1 fact
claimVirtue epistemologists oppose W.V.O. Quine's suggestion that epistemology should be a branch of psychology that is descriptive rather than prescriptive.
[PDF] Naturalized Epistemology - Digital Commons @ Trinity digitalcommons.trinity.edu 1 fact
claimEpistemology collapses without residue into sciences such as biology and psychology.
Naturalized epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimCooperative naturalism is a version of naturalized epistemology that asserts that empirical results from psychology regarding human reasoning are essential for addressing evaluative questions in epistemology.