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This chapter summarizes the insights of the previous chapters. It concludes that naturalists face a dilemma when trying to say what scientific justification amounts to, which in turn suggests that this is a non-empirical question. Furthermore, it assesses the prospects of naturalized epistemology based on this suggestion, and by drawing on the results of part one of the book.
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For a discussion of this issue, see Stanford (2015).
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That, as a matter of fact, physical entities cannot be credited with such representations has been shown above. The present claim is merely that physicalism is in principle able to decide such questions.
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Gubelmann, R. (2019). Conclusion. In: A Science-Based Critique of Epistemological Naturalism in Quine’s Tradition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24524-5_10
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