Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On W.V.O. Quine's "Epistemology Naturalized" (1969). What justifies scientific theory?

Not theory-free observations, as Quine shows us by considering how we figure out foreign languages. Instead of basing science on epistemology, Quine thought we need to make epistemology part of science.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one
0:11.7	point, it's not undoing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.
0:15.6	Our question for episode 294 is something like how do we ground scientific theories?
0:20.9	And we read, Willard Van Ormanquines as a epistemology naturalized from 1969.
0:27.0	For more information, please visit partiallyexaminalife.com.
0:30.0	This is Mark Linton, my own Madison, Wisconsin, and all my philosophical theories came built
0:33.6	right into my language, y'all, jive, turkeys.
0:37.1	This is Seth Pascon with only a limited alphabet of perceptual norms in Austin, Texas.
0:42.7	This is Wes Allman under determined by the evidence and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:47.3	Hey, I want to just start by plugging.
0:49.4	I'm doing seminars.
0:51.5	So for each episode we do, and we'll almost always do a follow-up seminar.
0:56.2	You can find out about those at partiallyexaminalife.com slash seminars or go to WesAllman.com if you
1:01.7	want to sign up to be alerted when I do them.
1:04.6	I will be doing one on coin.
1:06.5	So this was something that was on our list for a long time.
1:09.6	We did some coin a long time ago.
1:12.0	The two dogmas of empiricism, and this is sort of the next thing that's been on the list
1:17.0	is supposed to explain why coin is sort of the analytic philosophy take on philosophy of
1:23.5	science.
1:24.5	It's not exactly the same line of debate as like a totian coon in those guys, though he
1:29.2	mentions coon at what point thinks it's a silly overreaction, but he's definitely has
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