Naturalized Epistemology

Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology, Epistemic Normativity and the Gettier Problem

W. V. Quine is one of the most prominent advocates of the naturalistic approach to epistemology and he argues that epistemology should be naturalized and transformed into a sub-discipline of psychology and hence a chapter in science. In his famous paper " Epistemology Naturalized, " Quine starts to compare epistemology with the logical and set-theoretical studies of the foundations of mathemati...

The Representation of Judgment Heuristics and the Generality Problem

In his debates with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Gerd Gigerenzer puts forward a stricter standard for the proper representation of judgment heuristics. I argue that Gigerenzer’s stricter standard contributes to naturalized epistemology in two ways. First, Gigerenzer’s standard can be used to winnow away cognitive processes that are inappropriately characterized and should not be used in th...

Epistemology Naturalized: The Info-Computationalist Approach

We will give an account of the naturalized epistemology based on the computational character of cognition and agency -which includes evolutionary approaches to cognition (Lorenz 1977, Popper 1978, Toulmin 1972 and Campbell et al. 1989, Harms 2004). In this framework knowledge is seen as a result of the structuring of input data (data → information → knowledge) by an interactive computational pr...

Naturalized Epistemology Considered

Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives