What Is A Naturalized Epistemology?
In any attempt to defend or refute naturalized epistemology, no one can ignore Quine as he is considered a staunch advocate of naturalized epistemology. (3) Quine says: “Epistemology still goes on, though in a new setting and a clarified status “Epistemology, or something like it, simply falls into place as a chapter of psychology and hence of natural science. It studies a natural phenomenon, viz., a physical human subject. This human subject is accorded a certain experimentally controlled input-certain patterns of irradiation in assorted frequencies, for instance-and in the fullness of time the subject delivers as output a description of the three dimensional external world and its history. The relation between the meager input and the torrential output is a relation that we are prompted to study for some what the same reasons that always prompted epistemology; namely, in order to see how evidence relates to theory, and in what ways one s theory of nature transcends any available evid
