Epistemology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Naturalized epistemology === {{Main|Naturalized epistemology}} In certain respects an intellectual descendant of pragmatism, [[naturalized epistemology]] considers the evolutionary role of knowledge for agents living and evolving in the world.<ref name="Quine2004"/> It de-emphasizes the questions around justification and truth, and instead asks how reliable beliefs are formed empirically and what role that evolution plays in the development of such processes. It suggests a more empirical approach to the subject as a whole, leaving behind philosophical definitions and consistency arguments, and instead using psychological methods to study and understand how "knowledge" is actually formed and is used in the natural world. As such, it does not attempt to answer the analytic questions of traditional epistemology, but rather replace them with new empirical ones.<ref name="Kim1988"/> Naturalized epistemology was first proposed in "Epistemology Naturalized", a seminal paper by [[W.V.O. Quine|W. V. O. Quine]].<ref name="Quine2004"/> A less radical view has been defended by [[Hilary Kornblith]] in ''Knowledge and its Place in Nature'', in which he seeks to turn epistemology towards empirical investigation without completely abandoning traditional epistemic concepts.<ref name="Kornblith2002"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page