
Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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What Is the Difference Between Epistemology and Skepticism?
i think we need, some element of scepticism in order to take epistemology seriously as a projectee if we naturalize it. The way kwin puts it at one point is just that we want to figure out the ways in which theory is under determined by evidence. So what hume is doing epistemologically when he tries to say, haylook, we have all this physicalist discourse about their being these objects out there and that they're causally related. Well, what we get in terms of immediate sensory evidence, all these different sense impressions,. It really under determines everything that we think about those objects. Those are theoretical constracts thare underdetermined by the
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