La epistemología naturalizadalos casos de Davidson y Queane

Abstract

Focusing on Davidson’s and Quine’s epistemologies, this paper explores Davison’s criticism to Quine’s account of knowledge for being first person and cartesian. Davidson, from an opposite point of view, defines himself as a naturalized epistemologist because of his third person perspective. We compare this theory with Quine’s in three points shared by any naturalized epistemology: ontological continuity, methodological continuity and criticism to normativity. We will conclude that, while in Quine’s theory these three points are satisfied, Davidson only maintains ontological continuity, and that the third person perspective does not hold naturalization when appears in folk psychology explanations, which Davidson defends, but when appears in scientific explanations.