FROM RELIGIOUS/TRADITIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY TO LOCKEAN NATURALIZED EPISTEMOLOGY

Abstract

Naturalized epistemology is an approach to the theory of knowledge that emphasizes the application of methods, results, and theories from the empirical sciences. It contrasts with approaches that emphasize a priori conceptual analysis or insist on a theory of knowledge that is independent of it. In most cases when reference is made to naturalized epistemology, reference is only made to W. V. Quine, Alvin Goldman and Thomas Kuhn, but this piece argues that John Locke had made enormous contribution to the development of Naturalised Epistemology. The researcher observes that Locke‟s break away from traditional epistemology as the Father of British Empiricism and his psychology based theory of knowledge was a foundation to the evolution of naturalised epistemology.