In Conversation: W.V. Quine - Fogelin Panel - Section 2

The Fogelin Panel

Professor Robert Fogelin is chairman of the philosophy department at Dartmouth College and specializes in the areas of epistemology, ethics and philosophy of language. He has published extensively, and his most recent books include Hume's Scepticism in the Treatise on Human Nature, Wittgenstein, and Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification.

In this program, Professor Quine's epistemology is scrutinized in detail. In response, he clearly outlines his concepts of naturalized epistemology and the web of belief, and he answers the classical skeptical challenges. Next, Quine's views on the problem of induction and on the status of epistemic norms are considered. Finally, Professor Quine's naturalism is fully explored—that is, the belief that science is the only road to knowledge.

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Education

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• Philosophy
• W.V.O.
• Quine
• Logic
• Epistemology
• Induction
• Naturalism
• Robert
• Fogelin
• Dartmouth
• College

[soultorment27]

@nortexoid

i really dont think he was stating that "knowledge is one extreme degree of belief". but rather, it is only on one end of the belief continuum are the necessary conditions met for knowledge to be obtained...

[Guaguanco11]

Perhaps the claim was not that knowledge is just one extreme of degree of belief but rather that knowledge can only occur at one extreme of degree of belief. Hence, I can only know that p if I give p a high credence.

[nortexoid]

How is knowledge just one extreme of degree of belief? I can have the strongest degree of belief in p without p being true. But then knowledge, by this definition is not factive (veridical). Rubbish!

[brianellis1]

One of my favourite philosophers to read, however he just dosen't come across well on camera.