Epistemology

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

Epistemologically, Nyaya develops a sophisticated precursor to contemporary reliabilism (particularly process reliabilism), centered on the notion of knowledge-sources (pramana).

Tabula rasa; Latin for "blank slate"

The problem of induction is a philosophical problem that questions the rationality of predictions about unobserved things based on previous observations.

According to the reliabilist approach to epistemology, any adequate account will need to mention the reliability of the process responsible for the belief, or truth-conducive considerations more generally.

Philosophy of education, epistemology, journalism, ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, metaphysics

Ethics, social and political philosophy, logic, epistemology

Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ontology

Aesthetics, history of Western philosophy, literary theory, metaphilosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, social philosophy, psychoanalysis, semiotics (film semiotics)

Epistemology critical social theory political theory philosophy of law Rationalization (sociology), rationalization pragmatics pragmatism

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Moral philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion

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Political philosophy, ethics, epistemology

Literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy of technology, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of history

Epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, logic, modal logic, philosophy of science, natural theology

Epistemology

Metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, studies of immediate experience

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Ontology, epistemology, rhetoric, moral relativism

Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 600-670 CE) was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā. He was one of the key scholars of epistemology (pramāṇa) in Buddhist philosophy, and is associated with the Yogācāra and Sautrāntika schools.

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Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language

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Walter Terence Stace (17 November 1886-2 August 1967) was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism.

Aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, meta-ethics

Her work specialises in epistemology, metaphilosophy, and black feminist philosophy.

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José Zalabardo (born 1964) is a Spanish-British philosopher who works on epistemology, metaphysics, and related areas.

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Her work concerns philosophy of science, epistemology, feminist philosophy, and human/animal relationships.

Epistemology, hadith studies, Islamic metaphysics, mysticism, ontology, tafsir, Quranic exegesis

Neoplatonism, Kantianism, and Hinduism, Emerson developed a metaphysics of process, an epistemology of moods, and an “existentialist” ethics of self-improvement.

This philosophy is in the Aristotelian tradition, with that tradition’s emphasis upon metaphysical naturalism, empirical reason in epistemology, and self-realization in ethics.

ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty’s view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted.

Second, he intended to dislodge unnecessary Western epistemologies that are to be found in African philosophical practices.

Suhrawardi provides an original Platonic critique of the dominant Avicennan Peripateticism of the time in the fields of logic, physics, epistemology, psychology, and metaphysics.

He writes on extremism, terrorism, self-knowledge, perception, epistemic vices and topics in Kantian epistemology.

Bradley is best known for work on decision theory, formal epistemology, semantics, and climate change policy.

After several years of employment by the university, where he was mainly occupied with questions of epistemology in the social sciences, Sidi Mohammed Barkat directed a research programme at the Collège international de philosophie

Foundationalism concerns philosophical theories of knowledge resting upon non-inferential justified belief, or some secure foundation of certainty such as a conclusion inferred from a basis of sound premises.

The Münchhausen trilemma (also known as Agrippa's trilemma) is an epistemological thought experiment intended to demonstrate the theoretical impossibility of proving any truth, even in the fields of logic and

Reliabilism, a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of epistemology, has been advanced as a theory both of justification and of knowledge.

The new riddle of induction was presented by Nelson Goodman in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast as a successor to Hume's original problem.

The Cartesian circle (also known as Arnauld's circle) is an example of fallacious circular reasoning attributed to French philosopher René Descartes.

They are often anti-skeptical arguments referring to the conditions making experience or knowledge possible.

He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our knowledge of the world is compared to our knowledge of our minds, and argue for rationalism.

Peritrope (Greek: περιτροπή) is Socrates' argument against Protagoras' view of subjective truth, as presented in Plato's book known as Theaetetus (169-171e).

It emerged in the mid-20th century as a skeptical response to modernism, emphasizing the instability of meaning, rejection of universal truths, and critique of grand narratives.

He wrote over twenty scholarly books and numerous journal articles on different areas of philosophy including epistemology, logic, and phenomenology.

The work discusses creation, questions about the soul, epistemology, and Ismaili Islamic doctrines.

Epistemology, philosophy of action

Ásta is predominantly concerned with metaphysics, the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.

Jones has published in the areas of epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and metaphilosophy.

At the very least, this shall afford us a glimpse at the way Ibn Kammūna handles a key notion of psychology, epistemology, and the theory of prophecy, in various literary formats.