Epistemology

Epistemology, from the Greek words episteme (knowledge) and logos (word/speech) is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge. It has historically been one of the most investigated and most debated of all philosophical discourses.

See also

Epistemic theories

• Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
• Philosophical scepticism
• Rationalism
• A priori
• A posteriori
• Empiricism
• Foundationalism
• Coherentism
• Reliabilism
• Perception
• Naïve realism
• Representative realism
• Idealism
• Transcendental idealism
• Subjective idealism
• Phenomenalism

Epistemic philosophers

• William Alston
• Robert Audi
• J. L. Austin
• A. J. Ayer
• Gaston Bachelard
• George Berkeley
• Laurence BonJour
• F.H. Bradley
• Roderick Chisholm
• Paul Churchland
• Donald Davidson
• René Descartes
• John Dewey
• Fred Dretske
• Paul Feyerabend
• Edmund Gettier
• Alvin Goldman
• Nelson Goodman
• A. C. Grayling
• Susan Haack
• Georg Hegel
• David Hume
• William James
• Immanuel Kant
• Hilary Kornblith
• Thomas Kuhn
• Imre Lakatos
• Keith Lehrer
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• David Lewis
• John Locke
• George Edward Moore
• Jean Piaget
• Alvin Plantinga
• Plato
• Karl Popper
• Hilary Putnam
• W. V. Quine
• Ayn Rand
• Thomas Reid
• Richard Rorty
• Bertrand Russell
• Ernest Sosa
• Baruch Spinoza
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Nicholas Wolterstorff

Related topics

• Aesthetics
• Common sense and the Diallelus
• Controversial science
• Episteme
• Ethics
• Evidentialism
• Knowledge
• Metaphysics
• Methodology
• Methods of obtaining knowledge
• Ontology
• Philosophy
• Philosophy of science
• Reason
• Regress argument
• Self-evidence
• Science education
• Social epistemology
• Theory of justification
• Virtue epistemology