Companion to Quine . Quine and Epistemology
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For Quine, as for many canonical philosophers since Descartes, epistemology stands at the very center of philosophy. Indeed, at the outset of “The Nature of Natural Knowledge”, Quine writes of “those of us who look upon philosophy primarily as the theory of knowledge” (1975:67). In this chapter, I discuss some central themes in Quine’s epistemology. I attempt to provide some historical context for Quine’s views, in order to make clear why they were seen as such radical challenges to then prevailing orthodoxies within analytic philosophy. I also highlight aspects of his views that I take to be particularly relevant to contemporary epistemology.
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