'Epistemology Naturalized' and the Vienna Circle
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Naturalistic Epistemology. Logical Empiricism. Quine. Carnap. Neurath.Abstract
This paper considers W.V.O. Quine's inauguration of naturalistic epistemology at the 14th International Congress of Philosophy in Vienna in 1969 and argues that, contrary to his suggestions, naturalistic epistemology was practiced in the Vienna Circle already back in the days when he visited them fresh out of graduate school.
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