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Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called theory of knowledge, it explores different...

following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to epistemology: Epistemology (aka theory of knowledge) – branch of philosophy concerned with...

Dream argument Regress argument (epistemology) Münchhausen trilemma Blaauw, Martijn; Pritchard, Duncan (2005). Epistemology A-Z. Edinburgh University Press...

Genetic epistemology or 'developmental theory of knowledge' is a study of the origins (genesis) of knowledge (epistemology) established by Swiss psychologist...

Social epistemology refers to a broad set of approaches that can be taken in epistemology (the study of knowledge) that construes human knowledge as a...

Bayesian epistemology is a formal approach to various topics in epistemology that has its roots in Thomas Bayes' work in the field of probability theory...

methodologies of the natural sciences. The general thesis of cooperative naturalism is that traditional epistemology can benefit in its inquiry by using the...

Applied epistemology refers to the study that determines whether the systems of investigation that seek the truth lead to true beliefs about the world...

philosophy, Plato's epistemology is a theory of knowledge developed by the Greek philosopher Plato and his followers. Platonic epistemology holds that knowledge...

questioned, resulting in infinite regress. It is a problem in epistemology and in any general situation where a statement has to be justified. The argument...

Feminist epistemology is an examination of epistemology from a feminist standpoint. Feminist epistemology claims that ethical and political values are...

Frame and Vern Poythress. Frame laid out the idea with respect to a general epistemology in his 1987 work The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, where he suggests...

thinking or believing in general—and the impact of this on learning. Research on epistemic cognition has drawn on research in epistemology, the area of philosophy...

Even philosophers disagreeing among themselves on which direction general epistemology ought to take, as well as on philosophy of science, agreed that the...

their art). The treatise may be considered "the first attempt at general epistemology bequeathed to us by antiquity", although this may only be because...

self-cultivation. Major branches of philosophy are epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epistemology studies what knowledge is and how to acquire it...

of knowledge' itself (epistemology). Coleridge's ideas regarding the philosophy of science involved Romantic science in general, but Romantic medicine...

called intellectual virtues. The foundation for epistemic virtues is epistemology, the theory of what we know to be true according to our own perception...

coined the term evolutionary epistemology and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in...

recruit researchers, and the general values and norms characteristic of the scientific profession. Formal epistemology studies knowledge using formal...