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* {{Cite book|title=Metaepistemology: Realism and Anti-Realism|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|year=2018|isbn=9783319933696|editor-last=Kyriacou|editor-first=Christos|editor-last2=McKenna|editor-first2=Robin}} |
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Metaepistemology is the metaphilosophical study of the methods, aims, and subject matter of epistemology.[1] In general, metaepistemology aims to better understand our first-order epistemological inquiry.
In epistemology, there are two basic metaepistemological approaches: traditional normative epistemology, and naturalized epistemology.[citation needed]
Traditional epistemology has been concerned with justification. According to the traditional model of knowledge, some proposition p is knowledge if and only if:
- some agent X believes p,
- p is true,
- X is justified in believing in p
Since the time of Descartes, who sought to establish the criteria by which true beliefs could be acquired, and to determine those beliefs we are in fact justified in believing, the primary epistemological project has been the elucidation of the justificatory condition in this conception of knowledge (i.e. justified true belief).
Naturalized epistemology had its beginnings in the twentieth century with W. V. Quine. Quine's proposal, which is commonly called "replacement naturalism," is to excise every trace of normativity from the epistemological body. Quine wanted to merge epistemology with empirical psychology such that every epistemological statement would be replaced by a psychological statement.
References
- ^ "Metaepistemology". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
Further reading
Books
- Carter, J. Adam (2016). Metaepistemology and Relativism. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137336644.
- Cuneo, Terence (2007). The Normative Web. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199218837.
- Fumerton, Richard (1995). Metaepistemology and Skepticism. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780847681068.
- Kyriacou, Christos; McKenna, Robin, eds. (2018). Metaepistemology: Realism and Anti-Realism. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319933696.
- McHugh, Conor; Way, Jonathan; Whiting, Daniel, eds. (2018). Metaepistemology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198805366.