Recasting the virtues to take into account contemporary understanding of psychological development, she enters into conversation with feminists, narrative ethicists like MacIntyre and Hauerwas, and
epistemologists like Wittgenstein and Anscombe.
On the other hand, although he shares with
contemporary epistemologists the view that all observation is «theory - laden,» he does not thereby conclude that induction should simply be discarded to the junk heap of worn out ideas.
Lewontin confesses that the
empirical epistemologist, who asserts that the only intelligible propositions regarding reality are those which are empirically verifiable, must still rely on a strictly unempirical, untestable, a priori prejudice.
The running gag is that we'll end up with well - paying and practical careers, while our contemporaries studying 18th - century Flemish epistemology will emerge from academia baffled at the dearth of jobs for 18th - century
Flemish epistemologists.
Richard Rorty could be America's
first epistemologist to go for the public eye and political commitment.
The epistemologist in me says that the human mind has rather low standards of proof and always has, even the scientific rationalists.
Her influences come from a wide array of writers, musicians, and
epistemologists.