American philosopher who rejected the analytic/synthetic distinction and defended a thoroughgoing naturalized epistemology — making him the most influential American philosopher of the 20th century.
Two Dogmas of Empiricism: the analytic/synthetic distinction is not tenable — there are no truths that hold by meaning alone. The web of belief: our beliefs face experience as a corporate body — any belief can be maintained in the face of recalcitrant experience by adjusting others. Naturalized epistemology: epistemology is a chapter of empirical psychology — not a prior discipline. Ontological relativity: what entities exist is relative to a conceptual scheme.
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