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Epistemology, the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge. The term is derived from the Greek episteme (“knowledge”) and logos (“reason”). Along with metaphysics, logic, and ethics, it is one of the four main branches of philosophy.
Epistemology - History, Philosophy, Knowledge: The central focus of ancient Greek philosophy was the problem of motion. Many pre-Socratic philosophers thought that no logically coherent account of motion and change could be given.
epistemology, Study of the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. Nearly every great philosopher has contributed to the epistemological literature.
For the most part, epistemology from the ancient Greeks to the present has focused on knowing that. Such knowledge, often referred to as propositional knowledge , raises a number of peculiar epistemological problems, among which is the much-debated issue of what kind of thing one knows when one knows that something is the case.
Epistemology - Belief, Justification, Rationality: Philosophers have disagreed sharply about the complex relationship between the concepts of knowledge and certainty. Are they the same? If not, how do they differ?
Epistemology - Aquinas, Knowledge, Reason: With the translation into Latin of Aristotle’s On the Soul in the early 13th century, the Platonic and Augustinian epistemology that dominated the early Middle Ages was gradually displaced. Following Aristotle, Aquinas recognized different kinds of knowledge. Sensory knowledge arises from sensing ...
Epistemology - A Priori, A Posteriori, Knowledge: Since at least the 17th century, a sharp distinction has been drawn between a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge. The distinction plays an especially important role in the work of David Hume (1711–76) and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804).
problem of universals. mind-body problem. hylomorphism. personalism. metaphysics, branch of philosophy whose topics in antiquity and the Middle Ages were the first causes of things and the nature of being.
Epistemology - Hume, Knowledge, Belief: Although Berkeley rejected the Lockean notions of primary and secondary qualities and matter, he retained Locke’s belief in the existence of mind, substance, and causation as an unseen force or power in objects.
Epistemology - Perception, Knowledge, Belief: The epistemological interests of analytic philosophers in the first half of the 20th century were largely focused on the relationship between knowledge and perception.