May 23, 2022
On W.V.O. Quine's "Epistemology Naturalized" (1969). What justifies scientific theory?
Not theory-free observations, as Quine shows us by considering how we figure out foreign languages. Instead of basing science on epistemology, Quine thought we need to make epistemology part of science.
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