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Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. It studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, and...

property of belief that qualifies it as knowledge rather than mere opinion. Epistemology is the study of reasons that someone holds a belief (although the term...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Philosophy of art Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the source, nature and validity of knowledge. Social epistemology – inquiry into...

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

behavioral sciences. He was interested in the relationship of these fields to epistemology. His association with the editor and author Stewart Brand helped widen...

sciences and plays a role in various other fields, like epistemology and law. There is no general agreement on how the terms evidence and empirical are...

the intersections of evolutionary biology with other fields such as epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy. Charles Darwin's 1859...