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[from 'Epistemology Naturalized' by Willard Quine, in 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 9. Naturalised Epistemology ]

Full Idea

There is something seriously misguided about Quine's project of reducing epistemology to psychology, since psychology, like any of the natural sciences, presupposes an epistemology.

Gist of Idea

You can't reduce epistemology to psychology, because that presupposes epistemology

Source

comment on Willard Quine (Epistemology Naturalized [1968]) by Barry Maund - Perception Ch.1

Book Reference

Maund,Barry: 'Perception' [Acumen 2003], p.3


A Reaction

I wonder if epistemology presupposes psychology? Belief, for example, is a category of folk psychology, which could be challenged. There is a quiet battle going on between philosophy and science.