Quine’s critique of C. I. Lewis: pragmatism, psychologism, and naturalism—a response to Quine, conceptual pragmatism, and the analytic-synthetic distinction (Robert Sinclair, 2022)
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I argue that Quine’s naturalization of Lewis’s Kantian pragmatism should be understood in terms attempt to de-psychologize pragmatist epistemology. Lewis wants epistemology a priori order distinct from psychology. criticisms result picture weakens the distinction between and Nevertheless, naturalized remains far more than is widely recognized, due what Quine retains Lewis.
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2731-4642']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-023-00093-z