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Nature unmirrored, epistemology naturalized

  • Part I: Belief, Information Processing, And Naturalized Epistemology
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A. Knowledge and Justification: The nature of epistemic justification and its supervenience.

B. Understanding and Validation: Two projects of epistemology, one to understand justification, the other to promote it.

C. Epistemic Rationalism: A simple foundationalism of intuition and deduction.

D. Reliabilism: A broader foundationalism.

E. Foundationalism Assailed.

F. Nature Unmirrored: Rorty reviewed.

G. Reliabilist Foundationalism: Two problems.

H. Coherence: A more radical response to the failure of rationalism.

I. Perspectival Coherence: The requirement of an epistemic perspective and its relation to foundationalism.

J. Epistemology of Epistemology.

K. How to Naturalize Epistemology: Quine reviewed.

L. Epistemology Naturalized: Through the Project of Validation.

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Sosa, E. Nature unmirrored, epistemology naturalized. Synthese 55, 49–72 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485373

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