Epistemology, derived from the Greek words episteme, meaning knowledge, and logos, meaning reason or argument, is a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, scope, and sources of knowledge. It ...

ABSTRACT: This paper functions as a brief introduction to virtue epistemology, a topic that has enjoyed a recent gain in popularity among analytic philosophers. Here I maintain that the defining ...

History often hides its greatest lessons in ruins. A visitor walking through the courtyards of the Alhambra in Granada, standing beneath the silent arches of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, or wandering ...

Moral psychology and social epistemology study how people think, decide and learn together. This research area explores how moral judgment works, how beliefs are formed and influenced and how ...

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an epistemological approach to the investigation of material properties that is opposed to both phenomenalistic epistemology and recent linguistical and ontological ...

In the jargon of academia, the study of what we can know, and how we can know it, is called “epistemology.” During the 1980s, philosopher Richard Rorty declared it dead and bid it good riddance. To ...

How do you know what the weather will be like tomorrow? How do you know how old the Universe is? How do you know if you are thinking rationally? These and other questions of the “how do you know?” ...

Since the time of Descartes philosophers have sought to establish what justifies true beliefs by examining the epistemic conditions immediately underlying knowledge claims. As critics of this ...