Formal epistemology uses formal methods from decision theory, logic, probability theory and computability theory to model and reason about issues of epistemological...

Specialties in epistemology ask questions such as "How can people create formal models about issues related to knowledge?" (in formal epistemology), "What are...

following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to epistemology: Epistemology (aka theory of knowledge) – branch of philosophy concerned with...

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

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...

Naturalized epistemology (a term coined by W. V. O. Quine) is a collection of philosophic views about the theory of knowledge that emphasize the role of...

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

Virtue epistemology is a current philosophical approach to epistemology that stresses the importance of intellectual and specifically epistemic virtues...

Computational epistemology is a subdiscipline of formal epistemology that studies the intrinsic complexity of inductive problems for ideal and computationally...

Evolutionary epistemology refers to three distinct topics: (1) the biological evolution of cognitive mechanisms in animals and humans, (2) a theory that...

norms characteristic of the scientific profession. Formal epistemology studies knowledge using formal tools found in mathematics and logic. An important...

from social epistemology (especially concerning the epistemology of testimony, or the epistemology of disagreement), or formal epistemology's use of probability...

biases. Lakatosian heuristics is based on the key term: Justification (epistemology). One-reason decisions are algorithms that are made of three rules: search...

time or causality as particular determinants thereon. The claim is more formally known as Kant's transcendental deduction and it is the central argument...

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

In philosophical epistemology, there are two types of coherentism: the coherence theory of truth, and the coherence theory of justification (also known...

Feminist epistemology – Fideism – Finitism – Fitch's paradox of knowability – Fooled by Randomness – Formal epistemology – Formative epistemology – Foundationalism...

name. His approach uses tools of analytic philosophy especially formal epistemology to analyze problems in social knowledge. Some of this work is summarized...

Rudolf Carnap's logical-positivist conception of the epistemology of science, theories belonging to formal sciences are understood to contain no synthetic...

we think we know. Whereas both philosophies are under the umbrella of epistemology, their argument lies in the understanding of the warrant, which is under...

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

is an attempt to respond to the regress problem of justification in epistemology. According to this argument, every proposition requires justification...

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...

Outline of epistemology Faith and rationality Formal epistemology Metaepistemology Philosophy of perception Philosophy of science Social epistemology Virtue...

eternal, non-perceptible Form. Plato also discusses several aspects of epistemology. In several dialogues, Socrates inverts the common man's intuition about...

mental state of having some stance, take, or opinion about something. In epistemology, philosophers use the term "belief" to refer to attitudes about the world...

and empirical evidence. It is one of several competing views within epistemology, along with rationalism and skepticism. Empiricists argue that empiricism...

Maximilian University of Munich, known for his contributions to formal epistemology. Hartmann received his PhD from Justus Liebig University in Giessen...

and propositions. The primary target of philosophical skepticism is epistemology, but it can be applied to any domain, such as the supernatural, morality...

publications were on formal logic and set theory. Only after World War II did he, by virtue of seminal papers on ontology, epistemology and language, emerge...