Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

Much has happened in the field of contemporary epistemology since Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” was published in 1969; furthermore, before Ronald Giere published his article “Philosophy of Science Naturalized”, naturalized philosophy of science had been pushed by the so-called historical approach. Kuhm, Lakatos, Feyerabend and Laudan’s historical philosophy of science can be regarded as a form of it. Without a doubt, philosophy of science is closely related to epistemology. There is an intimate connection between (normative or descriptive) knowledge in this naturalistic approach and norms, values, reasoning, and knowledge in science and technology.

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