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This collection of papers has its origin in a seminar on "Naturalized Epistemology — Western and Indian Philosophy" organized by the Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University in December 2001, commemorating fifty years of the publication of W.V.O. Quine’s celebrated paper ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’. This seminar was generously funded by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, University Grants Commission, New Delhi and United States Educational Foundation in India, Kolkata. All these papers were submitted for this seminar except the one by Pranab Kumar Sen. Since Sen's paper directly deals with the issue that the present volume purports to discuss, we have decided to include it in this volume. We are deeply grateful to Rama Sen for kindly allowing us to include the paper in this volume. We are also thankful to Marcia Cavell and Arati Bhattacharya for giving us their consent to publish the papers of Donald Davidson and Sibajiban Bhattacharya. We take the opportunity to express our sincere thanks to all the contributors for their encouragement and for permitting us to publish their papers in this volume. The publication of this volume is being funded by the University Grants Commission under SAP (DRS - Phase 1) in Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University. We would like to thank the Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Finance Officer, Development Officer of Rabindra Bharati University for their cooperation.