CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGY: BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

This paper surveys main contemporary problems in epistemology, paying special attention to those topics in connection with philosophy and psychology. In particular, after briefly referring to the fundamentism/coherentism and internalism/externalism disputes and to the skeptical challenge, I focus on the two main sources of knowledge: perception and induction, especially important for the aim of keeping philosophy and psychology in touch. In the last section I also discuss the Quinian proposal of naturalization of epistemology, rejecting the strong version of it.