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Review Essay: The ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism' 50 Years On

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Paolo Parrini*
Affiliation:
University of Florence

Abstract

This chronicle is a review of a collective publication commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of W. V. O. Quine’s most influential paper. The author, a prominent epistemologist, discusses these contributions in a way that sheds a particular light on the importance of Quine’s work for the ongoing epistemological debate.

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Copyright © UNESCO 2007

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