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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. Epistemologists concern themselves with a number of tasks, which we might sort into two categories. First, we must determine the nature of knowledge; that is, what does it mean to say that someone knows, or fails to know, something?
Epistemology (pronounced eh-PIH-stem-AH-luh-jee) is the study of knowledge. It raises questions like. What is truth? Do we really know what we think we know? How can knowledge be made more reliable? It’s one of the oldest branches of philosophy, reaching far back into the time before Socrates.
Nov 23, 2005 · Epistemology, then, is the branch of philosophy that deals with questions concerning the nature, scope, and sources of knowledge. In what follows, I’ll briefly describe a few of the issues epistemologists deal with.
Apr 12, 2024 · Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology engages first-time philosophy readers on a guided tour through the core concepts, questions, methods, arguments, and theories of epistemology—the branch of philosophy devoted to the study of knowledge. The book progresses systematically while placing key ideas and thinkers in historical and ...
Understanding in Epistemology. Epistemology is often defined as the theory of knowledge, and talk of propositional knowledge (that is, “S knows that p”) has dominated the bulk of modern literature in epistemology. However, epistemologists have recently started to turn more attention to the epistemic state or states of understanding, asking ...
version 1. version 2. Published. 2021. Article Summary. Epistemology has been traditionally concerned with questions about the nature, value, and scope of knowledge, together with other questions that arise in relation to these. Hence, another name for epistemology is the theory of knowledge.
Continental epistemology; Analytic epistemology. Commonsense philosophy, logical positivism, and naturalized epistemology; Perception and knowledge; Realism; Phenomenalism; Later analytic epistemology
