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Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 5, 2001 9 facts
claimPhilip Kitcher distinguishes between traditionalists, who endorse favored principles without testing, and naturalists, who are willing to subject those principles to empirical tests to determine if they lead to truth.
claimNaturalists in epistemology tend to focus on questions regarding whether we have knowledge in specific areas, whether we draw correct conclusions from evidence, and whether the processes we use are reliable.
claimNaturalists in epistemology attempt to provide naturalistic definitions for epistemic terms, which are defined as statements of logically necessary and sufficient conditions for the application of those terms.
claimThe debate between naturalists and non-naturalists can be understood as a disagreement over whether knowledge and justification can be defined using naturalistically acceptable causal and reliabilist terms or if they require naturalistically suspect evaluative terms.
perspectiveIf a naturalist became convinced that people possessed abilities previously thought to be impossible, the appropriate response would be to revise views about the nature of reality rather than renouncing naturalism.
perspectiveSome naturalists argue that a substantive naturalist view must treat epistemic facts as supervening on causal facts rather than logical facts.
claimPhilosophers Chisholm (1982) and Van Cleve (1985) have written passages similar to the supervenience thesis, including those who would not typically be regarded as naturalists.
claimNaturalists generally accept the concept of 'evidence possessed' as naturalistic, viewing it as a combination of a person's current experiences, memories, and existing beliefs.
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).
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers rejects physicalism but identifies as a naturalist.