Apprentice comments on Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy - Less Wrong
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Okay, but now I'm getting a bit confused. You seem to me to have come out with all the following positions:
Those things don't seem to go well together. What am I misunderstanding?
Quinean naturalism does not have an exclusive lock on useful philosophy, but it's the most productive because it starts from a bunch of the right assumptions (reductionism, naturalized epistemology, etc.)
Like I said, Quine was wrong about lots of things. Behaviorism was one of them. But Quine still saw epistemology as a chapter of the natural sciences on how human brains came to knowledge - the field we now know as "cognitive science."