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Naturalism in epistemology suggests that normative epistemic concepts like justification should be understood in terms of their function within our natural, biological capacities for cognition.

Empirical psychology can inform naturalized epistemology by providing data on how humans perceive, remember, process, and reason about information.

Social epistemology examines how social interactions and institutions influence knowledge production and dissemination, incorporating insights from sociology and collective cognitive processes.

Cognitive ethology, the study of animal behavior and cognition under natural conditions, can contribute to naturalized epistemology by expanding our understanding of knowledge processes in non-human species.

Naturalized epistemology seeks to ground the study of knowledge in empirical findings from cognitive science, biology, and psychology, to produce testable theories about knowledge acquisition.

Neuroepistemology studies how the brain's structure and function contribute to the acquisition, representation, and use of knowledge, integrating findings from neuroscience with epistemic theories.

Wilfrid Sellars critiqued traditional epistemological foundations and emphasized the importance of understanding the scientific image of the world to inform epistemology.

Experimentation can enhance naturalized epistemology by providing controlled conditions to test hypotheses about knowledge acquisition and justification, making epistemological claims empirically verifiable.

Evolutionary epistemology applies evolutionary theory to the processes of knowing, suggesting that our cognitive capacities evolved under natural selection for successful action.