Summary Of Epistemology Naturalized By W. V. Quine

W. V. Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” has many admirers but few adherents. Numerous critics of Quine’s essay treat Quine’s proposal as abandoning normative epistemology. The general belief is that Quine is too extreme his attempt to naturalize epistemology. Most believe that he advocated for the replacement of epistemology with psychology. The major objection to Quine’s proposal for the naturalization of epistemology is that it dismisses normative questions asked by traditional epistemology. A famous critic of Quine is Jaegwon Kim. Kim objects Quine’s Naturalism via the claim that by merely describing the causal relationship between cognitive input and output, Quine’s naturalized epistemological approach disregards the normative epistemological