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A Science-Based Critique of Epistemological Naturalism in Quine’s TraditionQuine II: The Evolutionary-Perceptual Account

A Science-Based Critique of Epistemological Naturalism in Quine’s Tradition: Quine II: The... [In this chapter, I reconstruct Quine’s attempts to accommodate the privacy of stimulus meaning in his naturalized epistemology. These attempts span three decades and equally many monographs as well as a number of articles. Furthermore, I delineate his final proposal to solve it, which relies on natural selection to guarantee a preestablished harmony of innate perceptual similarity standards, and I discuss the extent to which this final solution still agrees with the basic doctrines that Quine defended in the 1960s (and never explicitly retracted). Finally, I develop an internal critique of two central aspects of Quine’s mature account, one focused on his use of natural selection, the other on his conception of pleasure through approval.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Science-Based Critique of Epistemological Naturalism in Quine’s TraditionQuine II: The Evolutionary-Perceptual Account

Gubelmann, Reto
Springer Journals — Jul 28, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
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978-3-030-24523-8
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55 –91
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10.1007/978-3-030-24524-5_3
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Abstract

[In this chapter, I reconstruct Quine’s attempts to accommodate the privacy of stimulus meaning in his naturalized epistemology. These attempts span three decades and equally many monographs as well as a number of articles. Furthermore, I delineate his final proposal to solve it, which relies on natural selection to guarantee a preestablished harmony of innate perceptual similarity standards, and I discuss the extent to which this final solution still agrees with the basic doctrines that Quine defended in the 1960s (and never explicitly retracted). Finally, I develop an internal critique of two central aspects of Quine’s mature account, one focused on his use of natural selection, the other on his conception of pleasure through approval.]

Published: Jul 28, 2019

Keywords: Privacy of stimulus meaning; Naturalized epistemology; Natural selection; Quine; Empiricism; Preestablished harmony

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