ABSTRACT
A guiding principle of epistemology, and indeed of common sense, is that in order for a true belief to count as knowledge, it must be justified in an appropriate way. With Goldman, the author believes that the proper extent of the naturalization of epistemology lies somewhere between the somewhat radical extremes of Chisholm and Quine. Epistemology, as the theory of knowledge, is not, on the face of it, limited in the types of knowledge that are open to study. In practice, however, epistemologists tend to focus their scrutiny on so-called knowledge of the external world. Such knowledge can be direct, through perception, or indirect, through the application of principles of scientific reasoning. The chapter shows that a benign naturalization of epistemology can be accomplished in a way that combines its traditional philosophical nature peaceably with the empirical and experimental methods of artificial intelligence. The naturalization of epistemology, therefore, should go hand in hand with the philosophization of artificial intelligence.
