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  • 10 - Naturalized Epistemology and Norms: Replies to Goldman and Fodor

  • from II - Later Papers
  • Richard Rorty
  • Edited by W. P. Małecki, Chris Voparil
  • Book:
    On Philosophy and Philosophers
    Published online:
    10 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020, pp 157-171

  • Summary

    “Naturalized Epistemology and Norms: Replies to Goldman and Fodor” addresses the views of Alvin Goldman and Jerry Fodor and concerns the question of how much psychology can contribute to epistemology. The position Rorty adopts is that it contributes very little and that whatever it can is of not much use because epistemology is of not much use in the first place. The paper develops this point by drawing on Rorty’s views on mind and knowledge and applying them to Goldman’s distinction between three kinds of epistemology (descriptive, analytic, and normative) as well as to Fodor’s project of explaining the intentionality of mental states by referring to the semantic properties of mental representations. The paper concludes by situating its criticisms of Fodor and Goldman in the larger context of the conflict between realism and pragmatism in the philosophy of mind.