In Conversation: W.V. Quine - Fogelin Panel - Section 1

Willard Van Orman Quine, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, has been described as the greatest living English-speaking philosopher. In this series, he takes part in an in-depth personal interview, and a penetrating analysis of his life's work in six panel discussions with some of today's leading philosophers. In discussions with some of today's leading philosophers. In discussions on his most important theses, Quine defends his views against the major criticisms—past and recent—to bring his position right up-to-date. The Fogelin Panel Professor Robert Fogelin is chairman of the philosophy department at Dartmouth College and specializes in the areas of epistemology, ethics and philosophy of language. He has published extensively, and his most recent books include Hume's Scepticism in the Treatise on Human Nature, Wittgenstein, and Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification. In this program, Professor Quine's epistemology is scrutinized in detail. In response, he clearly outlines his concepts of naturalized epistemology and the web of belief, and he answers the classical skeptical challenges. Next, Quine's views on the problem of induction and on the status of epistemic norms are considered. Finally, Professor Quine's naturalism is fully explored—that is, the belief that science is the only road to knowledge.