Home›Epistemology›All EpistemologyBrowse ByAll EpistemologyReference and ClassificationVerifiedSchools and movements whose defining doctrine concerns the sources, justification and limits of knowledge. Belongs here: empiricist, rationalist, pragmatist and skeptical schools, the classical Nyaya school of logic and epistemology, and the modern analytic and logical-positivist movements, whose founding project of clarifying meaning through verification and logical analysis is fundamentally an epistemological one even though it also produced work in logic and philosophy of science. Does not belong here: schools whose central doctrine is chiefly about being or about the state.FactsAll EpistemologySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested19 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedAncient Greek 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedAncient Indian 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedAncient Chinese 1All EpistemologyFilter Results24 entriesBranch of PhilosophyAllEpistemology (13)Ethics (1)Logic (3)Metaphilosophy (1)Metaphysics (2)Philosophy of Language (5)Philosophy of Religion (1)Philosophy of Science (1)Founded ByAllAkshapada Gautama (1)Bertrand Russell (1)Charles Sanders Peirce (1)Gottlob Frege (1)Henry Odera Oruka (1)Immanuel Kant (1)Jean-Francois Lyotard (1)John Dewey (1)John Locke (1)Moritz Schlick (1)Protagoras (1)Pyrrho of Elis (1)Rene Descartes (1)William James (1)EraAll-600 (1)-599 (1)-501 (1)-450 (1)-400 (1)-360 (1)-300 (1)-266 (1)200 (1)730 (1)1641 (1)1689 (1)1781 (1)1870 (1)1895 (1)1900 (1)1916 (1)1924 (1)1967 (1)1974 (1)1978 (1)1979 (1)RegionAllAncient Greece (Athens and its wider world) (1)Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic Mediterranean (1)Athens, Greece (1)Britain (England, Scotland) (1)Britain, later United States (1)China (1)France (building on Swiss linguistic origins) (1)France, later global Western academia (1)Indian subcontinent (4)Kenya, later broader East and Sub-Saharan Africa (1)Prussia (Germany) (1)United States (1)Vienna, Austria (1)TraditionAllAnalytic (2)Ancient (3)Continental (2)Eastern (6)Modern or Enlightenment (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 24Academic SkepticismEpistemologyAnalytic PhilosophyEpistemologyCharvakaEpistemologyDeconstructionEpistemologyEmpiricismEpistemologyHermeneuticsEpistemologyJain PhilosophyEpistemologyKantianismEpistemologyLogical PositivismEpistemologyLwów-Warsaw SchoolEpistemologyMu'tazilismEpistemologyNyayaEpistemologyPositivismEpistemologyPostmodernismEpistemologyPost-structuralismEpistemologyPragmatismEpistemologyPurva MimamsaEpistemologyPyrrhonismEpistemologyRationalismEpistemologySage PhilosophyEpistemologySchool of NamesEpistemologySkepticismEpistemologySophismEpistemologyStructuralismEpistemologySources1. Epistemology (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaEpistemology, lead section, term-coining sentenceDespite its ancient roots, the word itself was coined only in the 19th century to designate this field as a distinct branch of philosophy.Epistemology, lead section, early traditions sentenceEarly reflections on the nature, sources, and scope of knowledge are found in ancient Greek, Indian, and Chinese philosophy.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.