Quine’s Epistemic Norms in Practice

Undogmatic Empiricism

Michael Shepanski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-30430-7 (ISBN)

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In this illuminating guide to the criteria of rational theorizing, Michael Shepanski identifies, defends and applies W. V. Quine’s epistemic norms – the norms that best explain Quine’s decisions to accept some theories and not others.

Parts I and II set out the doctrines of this epistemology, demonstrating their potential for philosophical application. Part III is a case study in which Shepanski develops a theory of the propositional attitudes by the method of formalizing inferences to behaviour. He presents critiques of popular alternative views, including foundationalism, the centrality of knowledge and Quine’s own epistemological naturalism.

By reassessing Quine’s normative epistemology, Shepanski advances our understanding of Quine’s philosophy whilst providing a guide for our own theorizing.

Michael Shepanski is Adjunct Lecturer of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I. Undogmatic Empiricism
1. Wanted: A Normative Epistemology in Working Order
2. Epistemological Dissociative Disorder
3. Empiricism Without (Even Mentioning) the Dogmas
4. Conservatism is not a Third Norm
5. Sufficient Logical Explicitness is Norm Zero

Part II. Application to Philosophy
6. Touching Base
7. The Armchair
8. Adapting to Predicate Logic

Part III. Case Study: Propositional Attitude Ascriptions
9. Destination and Horizon
10. Sententialism
11. From Sententialism to Russellianism
12. Sententialism with Non-Designating Names

Part IV. Paths Not Taken
13. The “Two Dogmas” Argument
14. Naturalized Epistemology
15. Attitudes to Sets of Possibilia
16. The Mythical Given
17. Epistemology as the Theory of Knowledge

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-30430-1 / 1350304301
ISBN-13	978-1-350-30430-7 / 9781350304307
Zustand	Neuware