Naturalism

Quine's article entitled "Epistemology Naturalized", published in 1969 had great influence on epistemological studie's trend. Classic epistemology has great emphasis on skepticism and justification and requires epistemic obligations for attaining knowledge. For example, requiring epistemic obligations in Descartes and Carnap's thoughts is seen. This normative view to epistemology in Quine's thought is inefficient; instead he suggests replacement of descriptive view to epistemology. In his view, epistemology is not prior to science, but vice versa. Criticizing this Quine's view, Kim believes and argues that eliminating normative dimension of epistemology is impossible. Kim's argument is challenged by others like Campbell. In this article, Quine's view is examined and concluded that although, in a sense Quine's claim is acceptable, but it could not be accepted as true theory as a whole.