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Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 5, 2001 7 facts
claimEvidentialism asserts that the natural facts determining whether a belief is justified are facts about the evidence a person possesses for that belief.
claimIf epistemic support facts are natural facts and justification is defined by evidence possessed and epistemic support, then justification is defined in entirely natural terms, removing the need for evidentialists to rely on supervenience to defend naturalism.
claimThe supervenience thesis states that in any two worlds in which all the natural facts are alike, all the evaluative facts are also alike.
perspectiveTraditionalists argue that if epistemic support facts are not natural facts, then substantive epistemological naturalism is false.
claimIf Roderick Chisholm's criteria for naturalistically acceptable terms are accepted, it is unclear why epistemic terms like 'supports' are excluded from that list, suggesting that if they were included, epistemic support facts could be considered natural facts.
claimSubstantive epistemological naturalism is the view that all epistemic facts are natural facts.
claimJaegwon Kim holds the view that epistemic facts are natural facts if they supervene on unquestionably natural facts, a position shared by nearly all participants in the debate.
Naturalized epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 6 facts
claimSubstantive naturalism is a branch of naturalized epistemology that focuses on an asserted equality between facts of knowledge and natural facts.
perspectiveRoderick Chisholm argues that there are epistemic principles necessary for knowledge acquisition that may not be reducible to natural facts.
perspectiveCritics of substantive naturalism argue that the thesis that all facts of knowledge are natural facts is circular and fails to accommodate certain facts.
claimNaturalized epistemology requires that all epistemic facts comprising a reliable method must be reducible to natural facts because it relies on empirical evidence.
claimSubstantive naturalism defines natural facts based on two criteria: that they include all facts verifiable by science, and that they can be identified through a list of natural examples.
claimSubstantive naturalism is a form of naturalized epistemology that asserts that all epistemic facts are natural facts.