Analytic PhilosophyW.V.O. Quine |
How did W.V.O. Quine naturalize epistemology? |
He did not think that knowledge could have a foundation apart from science, and that instead of philosophical epistemology there should be a scientific explanation of how we construct our web of knowledge and why and how that web is successful.
Quine had a flexible view of knowledge and thought that theoretical terms did not have definite or fixed meanings, that translation was “indeterminate,” and that it was unclear how words referred to objects.