Full Idea
If normativity is wholly excluded from naturalized epistemology it cannot even be thought of as being about beliefs.
Clarification
'Normativity' concerns what we ought to believe
Gist of Idea
Without normativity, naturalized epistemology isn't even about beliefs
Source
comment on Willard Quine (Epistemology Naturalized [1968]) by Jaegwon Kim - What is 'naturalized epistemology'? p.306
Book Reference
'Epistemology - An Anthology', ed/tr. Sosa,E. /Kim,J. [Blackwell 2000], p.306
A Reaction
And if it doesn't refer to beliefs, it certainly doesn't refer to knowledge. One might try to subsume normativity under evolutionary pragmatic 'drives', or something. Quine's project would then become wildly speculative, and hence boring.