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Naturalized epistemology is a philosophical term that encompasses a variety of epistemological theories varying in extremity. At their root they all have one common thread, namely the involvement of empirical science in epistemology in rejection of a priori principles. At its most moderate end, the general thesis is that epistemology can benefit in its inquiry by using the knowledge we have gained from the cognitive sciences. More extreme theories involve the belief that traditional epistemology should be abandoned and turned over to the natural sciences. Naturalized epistemology is opposed to the anti-psychologism of Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gottlob Frege, and others.

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Philosophy is the discipline concerned with questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic).
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Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, methods, limitations, and validity of knowledge and belief.

The term "epistemology" is based on the Greek words "
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In philosophy generally, empiricism is a theory of knowledge emphasizing the role of experience, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, while discounting the notion of innate ideas.
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Science (from the Latin scientia, 'knowledge'), in the broadest sense, refers to any systematic knowledge or practice.[1] Examples of the broader use included political science and computer science, which are not incorrectly named, but rather named according to
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a priori" and "a posteriori" are used in philosophy to distinguish between deductive and inductive reasoning, respectively. Attempts to define clearly or explain a priori and a posteriori
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Cognitive science is most simply defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e.g. Luger 1994). It is an interdisciplinary study drawing from relevant fields including psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, computer science,
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Immanuel Kant (22 April, 1724 – 12 February, 1804) was a philosopher from Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the closing period of the Enlightenment.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (IPA: [ˈgeɔʁk ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːgəl]
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Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege
Birth: November 8, 1848
Death: 26 July, 1925
School/tradition: Analytic philosophy
Main interests: Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical logic, Philosophy of language
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Evolutionary epistemology refers to two distinct topics: it is a subfield of naturalized epistemology as well as a theory in epistemology about the growth of knowledge.

A branch of naturalized epistemology


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In epistemology, foundherentism is a theory of justification that combines elements from the two rival theories addressing infinite regress, foundationalism prone to arbitrariness and coherentism prone to circularity, hence the name.
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Murray Clarke is a Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He specializes in Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, and Naturalized Epistemology, and is the author of Reconstructing Reason and Representation.
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Paul Churchland (born 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a philosopher noted for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. He currently works at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D.
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Susan Haack (born 1945) is an English professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States.

She has made contributions in the fields of philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.
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Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential philosophers and logicians of the 20th century.
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Stephen Stich (born May 9, 1943) is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is also currently an Honorary Professor of the department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
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Hilary Kornblith is Professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Kornblith received his PhD from Cornell University, where he studied under Sydney Shoemaker and Richard Boyd.
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