Epistemology
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Epistemology, in general, "is concerned with understanding what it is to have knowledge."[1]
More specifically, it is the study of the nature of knowledge, justification of beliefs, and the rationality of belief. Much debate in epistemology centers on four areas:
- (1) the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such concepts as truth, belief, and justification,[2][3]
- (2) various problems of skepticism,
- (3) the sources and scope of knowledge and justified belief, and
- (4) the criteria for knowledge and justification.
Epistemology addresses such questions as: "What makes justified beliefs justified?",[4] "What does it mean to say that we know something?",[5] and fundamentally "How do we know that we know?"[6]
Notes
- ↑ Siderits 2007, Chapter 5.
- ↑ Steup, Matthias (2005). Zalta, Edward N., ed. "Epistemology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 ed.).
- ↑ Borchert, Donald M., ed. (1967). "Epistemology". Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 3. Macmillan.
- ↑ Steup, Matthias (8 September 2017). Zalta, Edward N., ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ↑ Carl J. Wenning. "Scientific epistemology: How scientists know what they know" (PDF).
- ↑ "The Epistemology of Ethics". 1 September 2011.
Sources
- Siderits, Mark (2007), Buddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction, Ashgate Publishing Limited, ISBN 978-0754653691
- Steup, Matthias; Neta, Ram (Fall 2020), "Epistemology", in Zalta, Edward N., The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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